Quotes by Actresses

You're not playing the game," he said grimly. "English gossip isn't supposed to get back to the person it's about.

There is one more thing," said Mr. Peabody. "Now you must go and pick up all the feathers." ... "I don't think it's possible to pick up all the feathers," Tommy replied. "It would be just as impossible to undo the damage that you have done by spreading the rumor that I am a thief," said Mr. Peabody. "Each feather represents a person in Happyville." ... "Next time, don't be so quick to judge a person. And remember the power of your words.

Madonna

I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can walk around the yard, sweeping leaves off the slate paths to my heart's content. Where I can spend all day in my pajamas puttering around the house, or curled up in my favorite chair in the family room next to the big stone fireplace. The walls are papered deep red, hung with Madison's paintings and lined with our favorite books. The furniture is comfortable and inviting. Our house is made to be lived in; we use every inch of it and don't mind the signs of wear and tear. There's a deep dent in the floor next to the hearth ... It's part of the story of this house, where a family has left its mark, and where it continues to grow and evolve.

Sissy Spacek

Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever.

Amy Poehler

But I was eventually okay. And you will be okay too. Here's why. I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

Amy Poehler

Fake boobs are weird ya'll" read by Patrick Stewart.

Amy Poehler

When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks for itself.

Deana Martin

Was he a good father?"To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man."Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

Deana Martin

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

Gabourey Sidibe

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

Molly Ringwald

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

Elaine Dundy

I was obsessed. I couldn't stop myself. It was not healthy, but I couldn't stop. I didn't feel like there was anything else in my life to stop for. We all have periods of our life when we're trapped doing something we hate and we develop habits that have nothing to do with our long-term goals to fill the downtime, right? I hope you identify with that idea. It's the only way I can explain becoming so emotionally invested in a video game that I would get in my car and drive around town sobbing if my internet went out.

Felicia Day

I don't get it. I just don't get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn't there be a few of us actors to represent them?

Camryn Manheim

The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course of a lifetime, is still one of the most chilling nightmares to me. It's a good metaphor for fears I have about losing my soul in some accidental, mundane way. So, to me, these jobs that my characters have are very loaded. They immediately suggest a complex character to me, a woman who is, say, a secretary, but also a vigilante on behalf of her own soul.

Miranda July

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...that bit just now...was that from Dante's Inferno?"Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.Really?"I'm in for it.Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.

Lesley Livingston

You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.

Lady Gaga

I haven't stopped looking for the good in people. I've just accepted the fact that I'm not always going to find it.

Patti LaBelle

One thing I've learned: you never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Hilary Swank

I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

Billie Burke

When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.

Jane Fonda

The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.

Lillian Gish

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Mary Tyler Moore

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Leslie Caron

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon " he said with a twinkle in his eye "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

Dorothea Kent

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!

Doris Day

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Lauren Bacall

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Now men and women are separate and unequal. We should be hand in hand in fact we should have our arms around one another.

Cloris Leachman

Ideally couples need three lives one for him one for her and one for them together.

Jacqueline Bisset

As for me prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work.

Katharine Hepburn

If you want something done ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

There are two kinds of talents man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent you just touch it up once in a while.

Pearl Bailey

I don't think that work ever really destroyed anybody. I think that lack of work destroys them a hell of a lot more.

Katharine Hepburn

People should tell their children what life is all about-it's about work.

Lauren Bacall

The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

Ginger Rogers

The sentimentalist ages far more quickly than the person who loves his work and enjoys new challenges.

Lillie Langtry

Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.

Kathy Ireland

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Julie Andrews

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

Katharine Hepburn

Work means so many things! So many! Among other things work also means freedom. ... Without it even the miracle of love is only a cruel deception.

Eleonora Duse

When I die my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills.

Gloria Swanson

Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing and if you are good enough at it the money will come.

Greer Garson

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.

Judith Anderson

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.

Billie Burke

A kiss can be a comma a question mark or an exclamation point. That's a basic spelling that every woman should know.

Mistinguette

From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 good personality. From 55 on she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.

Sophie Tucker

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make the same mistakes only sooner.

Tallulah Bankhead

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways-in science in politics in every bold intention. It is part of our collective lives entwining our past and our future ... a particularly rewarding aspect of life itself.

Shirley Temple Black

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

Lauren Bacall

Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.

Mae West

I have my standards. They may be low but I have them.

Bette Midler

My mother said "You won't amount to anything because you procrastinate." I said "Just wait."

Judy Tenuta

The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity�love. And the story of a love is not important�what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes

True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.

Jennifer Aniston

Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

Pearl Bailey

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