Quotes by Actresses - Page 6

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
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
Dame Flora Robson
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
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
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
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
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
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
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