Actress Quotes

Women's natural role is to be a pillar of the family.

Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

No, I don't belong to a retirement community.

My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

It hasn't been smooth or delightful every minute, there were lean years and rough years, but it's been exciting and good and I'm thrilled to be an actress and a singer and to have spent my life this way.

I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.

I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.

I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.

I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.

I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

The character I play in Star Quality says acting is the be-all and end-all of her life. I'm not like that. I do enjoy working and I give every job my best shot but I never feel, What on Earth am I going to do now?

So often actors only mix with actors, which is quite incestuous, and doesn't give them the insight into how other people work.

Older people, who just happen to have been around longer, may not be cleverer than the young, but they have seen more.

Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

In this great age of communication, there a lot of people you can't actually understand. I know everyone tweets, and twits and texts and all that, but actually we've all got voices, and it is awfully nice to hear them and if you can understand what people are saying.