Quotes by Actresses - Page 3

I see myself as Rhoda not Mary Tyler Moore.
Rosie O'Donnell
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
I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand
Oh I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!
Meg Ryan
After my screen test the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled "She can't talk! She can't act! She's sensational!"
Ava Gardner
You must love and care for yourself because that's when the best comes out.
Tina Turner
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Pearl Bailey
The deeper interior you have the more you have in your library.
Jacqueline Bisset
If I could know me I could know the universe.
Shirley Maclaine
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are-not necessarily a religious feeling but deep down the spirit within-that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey
Without discipline there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way mentally and physically and in appearance and that whatever the occasion or the situation you are equal to it.
Marlene Dietrich
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
Shyness is just egotism out of its depth.
Penelope Keith
I felt a comedy ego beginning to grow which gave me the courage to begin tentatively looking into myself for material.
Joan Rivers
The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Kathleen Turner
Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.
Raquel Welch
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
We Can't Afford to Doubt Ourselves I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door I'll go through another door-or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
Joan Rivers
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct a standard of courage discipline fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.
Eartha Kitt
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
Colleen Dewhurst
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman
Cherish forever what makes you unique 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!
Bette Midler
I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.
Maude Adams
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.
Raquel Welch
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi Goldberg
Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.
Pearl Bailey
I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.
Edith Evans
Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.
Charlotte Cushman
I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.
Shirley Maclaine
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it and they can't ever take that away from you.
Mae West
When you are a mother you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice once for herself and once for her child.
Sophia Loren
Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.
Cicely Tyson
My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow
The moment somebody says "this is very risky" is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate Capshaw
Between two evils I always picked the one I never tried before.
Mae West
People who are born even-tempered placid and untroubled-secure from violent passions or temptations to evil-those who have never needed to struggle all night with the angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn never become great saints.
Eva Le Gallienne
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Bette Davis
I'll always push the envelope. To me the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.
Cybil Shepherd
A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.
Katharine Hepburn
Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported insulated and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.
Shirley Temple Black
Me I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.
Bette Midler
If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn
Innovators are inevitably controversial.
Eva Le Gallienne
I'm not going to limit myself just because some people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton
Let the world know you as you are not as you think you should be because sooner or later if you are posing you will forget the pose and then where are you?
Fanny Brice
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.
Sally Field