Quotes by Actresses - Page 10

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Take chances make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.
Pearl Bailey
I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
Claudia Schiffer
If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you.
Mary Pickford
Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.
Rosalind Russell
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins
Life is not life unless you make mistakes.
Joan Collins
When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Carol Burnett
Wrinkles should only indicate where smiles have been.
Ethel Barrymore
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.
Cathy Lee Crosby
When something bad happens to me I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
Christie Brinkley
Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire women will like him.
Mae West
Yes I have doubted. I have wandered off the path but I always return. It is intuitive an intrinsic built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.
Helen Hayes
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of "The Look."
Lauren Bacall
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems don't rhyme and some stories don't have a clear beginning middle and end. Life is about not knowing having to change taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead
Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.
Anna Deavere Smith
One crime is everything two nothing.
Dorothee Deluzy
I can always be distracted by love but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner
Without imagination nothing is dangerous.
Georgette Leblanc
Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
Ruth Gordon
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.
Katharine Hepburn
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.
Katharine Hepburn
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
Courage - fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard
One of the things my life has taught me is how important it is to try to say "I love you" in ways that can be preserved looked at and read when you are alone or when there is adversity or when circumstances bring separation. In any case . . . saying "I love you" is one of the "secrets" of the happy marriage that Ronnie and I have shared. Ronnie's letters move me to this day. They are his gift to me across the years and throughout the decades of love.
Nancy Reagan
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.
Caroline Rhea
Whenever you want to marry someone go have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
In the race for love I was scratched.
Joan Davis
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
They say love is blind . . . and marriage is an insritution. Well I'm nor ready for an instirurion for rhe blind just yet.
Mae West
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent but with great inner drive go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
Sophia Loren
The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
Jane Adams
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you can shop in bed.
Joan Rivers
I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.
Joan Rivers
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
We measure success and depth by length and time but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.
Barbara Hershey
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine
I've learned that you'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Kirstie Alley
Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
Shirley Maclaine
You must change in order to survive.
Pearl Bailey
I'm tired of playing worn-out depressing ladies in frayed bathrobes. I'm going to get a new hairdo and look terrific and go back to school and even if nobody notices I'm going to be the most self-fulfilled lady on the block.
Joanne Woodward
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk tomorrow's senior partner.
Sigourney Weaver
Getting bored is not allowed.
Kay Thompson
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
Personally I think any more than two or three kids is not a family it's a litter.
Tracey Ullman
The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.
Gypsy Rose Lee
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day