Actress Quotes

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny.

I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

I like to go rock scrambling.

I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

I find nothing wrong with the naked body.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

Hollywood is a world all its own.

First of all - I only believe what I see.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.