Actress Quotes

I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!

Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

Before I go on stage, I knock three times. Three is my lucky number; I once went into an audition and was number 333 and got the best part ever.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.

I haven't had an orthodox career.

I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!

I had to let my ego go a long time ago.

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

I came from a real working-class show business family.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

Change is never easy.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.