Actress Quotes

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.

What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.