Actress Quotes

I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.

I would say I have compassion.

I know how guys talk, so I'm not easily offended. Guys can fight and be best friends five minutes later. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.

Everything is really good and I'm blessed.

I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.

Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.

OK, boss, I don't mind shuffling, but I won't scratch my head.

The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

I was very new to working in front of the camera when I started shooting 'Gatsby,' so I set myself the mission of gleaning as much information as possible out of the much more experienced actors. The cast was astoundingly talented.

I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.

I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I grew up in the suburbs.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.