Quotes by Actresses - Page 5

When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West
Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you so can the things it brought.
Paulina Porizkova
If you're considered a beauty it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.
Cybil Shepherd
Just because you're beautiful they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.
Carol Alt
I intimidate men.... People look a lot but there's no line outside my door.
Joan Severance
People see you as an object not as a person and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen
I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me but they don't.
LaToya Jackson
For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.
Christine Lahti
Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.
Cybil Shepherd
It is not how old you are but how you are old.
Marie Dressier
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
How long can you be cute?
Goldie Hawn
Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.
Priscilla Presley
When I was fourteen I was the oldest I ever was. ... I've been getting younger ever since.
Shirley Temple Black
I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot
On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.
Brigitte Bardot
Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.
Barbra Streisand
There is less in this than meets the eye.
Tallulah Bankhead
The best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.
Ruth Gordon
Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.
Catherine Deneuve
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Gloria Estefan
If someone said "Write a sentence about your life " I'd write "I want to go outside and play."
Jenna Elfman
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life- so that if it were over tomorrow you'd be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.
Anouk Aimee
If I see a door comin' my way I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door I'm sliding through the window.
Rosie Perez
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
Shelley Winters
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
Roseanne Barr
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Katharine Hepburn
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.
Jane Alexander
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
Elizabeth Fuller
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes even serious mistakes there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
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
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
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
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