I think of myself as a journeyman actress. I will attempt almost anything that I think that I can bring off. It could be almost anything.
I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.
It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I'm an actress.
I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.
I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
I'm a character actress.
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly.
When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.
It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.
Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me.
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women's job in Hollywood.
I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
I just don't think of myself as a movie star - I'm an actress.
Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.
I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.
I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.
There are very few actresses who can grow old and still get exciting parts... I think it's very important for me to have wider horizons, rather than just waiting for calls.
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
You can tell when an actor or actress cares about their work. It's really clear.
The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.
So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress.
My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
I won't name names, but sometimes a TV set can be a shame-and-fear obstacle course for an actress.
I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.
As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!
I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.
I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!
