#actress

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#became #because #could #get #i

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? ↗

— Amy Adams

#anybody #blanks #come #else #fill

After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#acting #actress #after #anyway #because

I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They can judge me as an actress, not as a person. I'm not a spokeswoman for Anna. ↗

— Anna Friel

#anna #character #day #every #every day

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. ↗

— Julia Marlowe

#countenance #depict #good #inability #listen

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife.... I guess I am a fantasy. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#fantasy #wife #wife

I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#actress #ago #broadway #building #career

I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me. ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#david #extend #helped #i #like

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting. ↗

— Elizabeth Ashley

#acting #actress #being #i #like

I didn't picture myself as a movie actress. I began to think about it around college. I remember thinking, "Well somebody has to be in them," so maybe I could do that eventually. It's all been a surprise. ↗

— Annette Bening

#actress #around #been #began #college