Actress Quotes

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.

I've had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.

I'm not one to air my dirty laundry for the whole world.

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.

I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

I know so many amazing actors who don't get work... and then there are a bunch of real duds that work all the time. The industry is just not fair in that way.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

I get really excited about jewelry.

I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

I didn't want to go to college. I wanted to move to Los Angeles right out of high school.

I also love horror movies; I like me a big Peter Berg action movie. I'm a movie lover in general.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

'Cause it's really hard, it's hard to be an actor.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

Teens aren't just interested in getting laid. I won't believe that's all they're interested in. I have four younger sisters and they're sick of being shown how they're supposed to react in bed.

Sometimes the only thing we women want is a dick and no arguments. What could make us happier?

People over 30 are interested in sex too, but they get real movies about it.

Marriage is a financial contract; I have enough contracts already.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.

I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.