#actress

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#actress #asked #course #early #everyone

I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#creative #famous #i #love #love me

I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress. ↗

— Laura Linney

#ever #father #grew #i #manhattan

I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you're a dentist, what do you know? If you're a lawyer, what do you know? It's our profession, it's what we do. It's not who we are. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#dentist #do you know #does #find #go

I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice. ↗

— Eva Longoria

#american #been #before #first #happen

I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#dancer #die #going #i #just

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

At some point we have to stop and say, There's Marlee, not, There's the deaf actress. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #point #say #some #stop

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#hard #i #method #sing #songs

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me. ↗