Quotes by Actresses - Page 2

Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead.
Lillie Langtry
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Mary Pickford
When I look to the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
I have always been driven by some distant music-a battle hymn no doubt-for I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous.
Bette Davis
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
Barbra Streisand
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
Oprah Winfrey
I've always wanted to be somebody but I see now I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin
As soon as you find the key to success somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae West
Success is like a liberation or the first phase of a love affair.
Jeanne Moreau
I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.
Jeanne Moreau
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
Liv Ullmann
If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
Success has killed more men than bullets.
Texas Guinan
The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.
Mary Astor
If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.
Shelley Long
If you rest you rust.
Helen Hayes
The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
Carol Haney
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.
Julie Andrews
There is no point at which you can say "Well I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher
Success ... depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
Sophie Tucker
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word-politeness of the heart a gentleness of the spirit.
Emma Thompson
People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
Ilka Chase
I've never sought success in order to get fame and money it's the talent and the passion that count in success.
Ingrid Bergman
Always aim for achievement and forget about success.
Helen Hayes
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead
Why is it when we talk to God we are said to be praying and when God talks to us we're said to be schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
I love God and when you get to know Him you find He's a Livin' Doll.
Jane Russell
God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.
Oprah Winfrey
Keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
Personally I know nothing about sex because I've always been married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.
Maureen Lipman
It's been so long since I made love I can't even remember who gets tied up.
Joan Rivers
There will be sex after death we just won't be able to feel it.
Lily Tomlin
Sex unlike justice should not be seen to be done.
Evelyn Laye
Sex is an emotion in motion.
Mae West
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson
One has to handle these negative experiences alone. You can't get help from your friends or family. You're finally alone with it and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.
Shirley Temple Black
We are taught you must blame your father your sisters your brothers the school the teachers-you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault because if you want to change you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that isn't it?
Katharine Hepburn
As far as beauty is concerned in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
Sophia Loren
I leave before being left. I decide.
Brigitte Bardot
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
Sally Field
We're all in this together ... alone.
Lily Tomlin
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me if I fail to make my own choices the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.
Liv Ullmann
Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom?
Hazel Scott
The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr
If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.
Ruth Gordon
Old age is no place for sissies.
Bette Davis
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich
No one can figure out your worth but you.
Pearl Bailey
Whether it was work marriage or family I've always been a late bloomer.
Sigourney Weaver
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.
Elayne Boosler
I was not a classic mother. But my kids were never palmed off to boarding school. So I didn't bake cookies. You can buy cookies but you can't buy love.
Raquel Welch