Quotes by Actresses - Page 7

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
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
Keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
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
When I look at the future it's so bright it burns my eyes.
Oprah Winfrey
The moment somebody says to me "This is very risky " is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
Kate Capshaw
I believe in using words not fists.
Susan Sarandon
Good humor like the jaundice makes every one of its own complexion.
Elizabeth Inchbald
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. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again you may have a fresh start any moment you choose for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Mommy we're not going to be poor again are we? "Not as long as you have that rare blood type."
Brett Butler
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Dennis Thatcher husband of Margaret Thatcher when asked who wore the pants in his house said "I do and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men domestic and foreign.
Mae West
A woman is like a tea bag - only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.
Nancy Reagan
For a single woman preparing for company means wiping the lipstick off the milk carton.
Elayne Boosler
If you ever leave me I'll go with you.
Rene Taylor
When women go wrong men go right after them.
Mae West
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Simone Signoret
Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Pains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That's what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex.
Simone Signoret
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5 000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Good luck needs no explanation.
Shirley Temple Black
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
Mary Pickford
I've married a few people I shouldn't have but haven't we all?
Mamie Van Doren
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
You may marry the man of your dreams ladies but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.
Roseanne Barr
We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.
Roseanne Barr
If love is the answer could you rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.
Joan Rivers
I look just like the girl next door ... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
Dolly Parton
If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner
I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb . . . and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey
Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them.
Pat Carroll
Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau
If love is the answer could you please rephrase the question?
Lily Tomlin
We're all in this together - by ourselves.
Lily Tomlin
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
Want the mistress of invention.
Susanna Centlivre