#actress

Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements. ↗

— D. W. Griffith

#acting #actress #excellent #give #go

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#actress #artistic #being #big #entitled

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#actress #ago #conversation #cool #difficult

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me. ↗

— Mary Tyler Moore

#character #create #i #me #play

Normally, an actress has to work to bring out her male side. In our case, the dynamic is reversed. The actor playing her modelled himself on Sharon Stone. ↗

— Edward Hall

#actress #bring #case #dynamic #her

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#age #any #character #character roles #climbs

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#even #get #i #many #months

I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it. ↗

— Valerie Harper

#ego #forget #get #got #i

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#being #complete #experienced #felt #fulfillment

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress. ↗

— Beth Henley

#after #america #bank #behind #being