Actress Quotes

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

You must change in order to survive.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Then Mission Impossible brought me to Australia and that was great because I fell in love.

Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.

It is a good thing to happen to you, to have that taste of fame because then you don't hanker for it.

I was on Murder She Wrote with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

I think if you're half-hearted you shouldn't go into acting.

I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

I have no regrets about my life.

I feel lucky. I think acting can help to keep you young. It does make you feel there's meaning in your life.

I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.

He wasn't really Method but he believed that when you did a role there were lots of things you could do with your co-star in order to create the right environment. You known, if you were supposed to be in love, to create that feeling between the two of you.

And that might have led to other shows but you know what LA is like. I was in my early 30s and it wasn't going to get easier. You know, that's when you start to wonder if you might have to get lots of plastic surgery.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.

We film in front of a live audience, and I was a theater actor before I got into television, so I like that.