Quotes by Actresses - Page 4

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
Pearl Bailey
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder an honorable character is your best calling card and that's something anyone can have!
Kathy Ireland
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
I suppose you've heard all those wicked stories about me. Well I've lived my life as it came and I've done bloody marvels with a bad hand.
Libby Holman
I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
Jan Sterling
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions.
Elayne Boosler
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West
It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.
Patti Page
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
I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
To get it right be born with luck or else make it.
Ruth Gordon
When I'm good I'm very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
Mae West
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.
Mae West
If I look like this I need the trip.
Gloria Swanson
I never said "I want to be alone." I only said "I want to be left alone." There is all the difference.
Greta Garbo
You are all you will ever have for certain .
June Havoc
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when of course you have to be someone more.
Candice Bergen
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?
Ethel Barrymore
The right way to pray then is any way that allows us to communicate with God.
Colleen Townsend Evans
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
People are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
Choice is the essence of what I believe it is to be human.
Liv Ullmann
What after all has maintained the human race on this old globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind if not the faith in new possibilities and the courage to advocate them?
Jane Adams
A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.
Tyne Daly
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
Bette Davis
Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.
Ruth Gordon
Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.
Mildred Davis
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
Shirley Maclaine
The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.
Mildred Davis
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
Beauty to me is being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Texas Guinan
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.
Charlotte Cushman
The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
To look back is to relax one's vigil.
Bette Davis
To try to be better is to be better.
Charlotte Cushman
Perfection is out of the question.
Anne Archer
I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.
Mae West
I need sex for a clear complexion but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh well I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.
Roseanne Barr
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them they start dropping.
Cindy Crawford
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
Guys think that if a girl is pretty she's automatically going to say no. Most of the guy's I've gone out with I've had to make it completely obvious that I'd like them to ask me out. Or I've had to ask them.
Brooke Shields
I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.
Jerry Hall
Not many people ask me out.
Marina Sirtis
I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.
Faye Dunaway
I look forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.
Susan Sarandon