Quotes by Actresses - Page 9

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music that song that vibration of God that was inside of me.
Shirley Maclaine
The Vatican is against surrogate mothers. Good thing they didn't have that rule when Jesus was born.
Elayne Boosler
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
Madonna
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.
Marlene Dietrich
You must learn day by day year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love the more you are interested in the more you enjoy the more you are indignant about the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.
Maude Adams
I always ask the question "Is this what I want in my life?"
Kathy Ireland
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts.
Eva Le Gallienne
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
Rosie O'Donnell
Normal is not something to aspire to it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis
Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.
Barbara Harris
He who hesitates is last.
Mae West
My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
Gabrielle Reece
I can trust my friends. ... These people force me to examine myself encourage me to grow.
Cher
Friendship's a noble name 'tis love refined.
Susannah Centlivre
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer
Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.
Arlene Francis
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Ethel Barrymore
Keep the other person's well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on.
Betty White
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked ... not just pitter-patter but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid because most people really like this contact that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.
Liv Ullmann
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they were born and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then.
Hazel Scott
I figure if I have my health can pay the rent and I have my friends I call it "content."
Lauren Bacall
Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Mae West
A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Pearl Bailey
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
Marlene Dietrich
I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.
Eleonora Duse
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West
Keep a grateful journal. Every night list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
Oprah Winfrey
For me it's not possible to forget and I don't understand people who when the love is ended can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.
Jeanne Moreau
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Revenge may not be a particularly high consciousness-oriented activity.
Carrie Fisher
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley Maclaine
Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
I want you to know how I feel about my Italian heritage so I'd like to say a few words in Italian: Verdi Pavarotti DiMaggio Valentino De Niro Giuliani. . .
Susan Lucci
I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.
Joan Rivers
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
Shirley Maclaine
My faith has wavered but has saved me.
Helen Hayes
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
Marlene Dietrich
I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet I go.
Pearl Bailey
Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.
Rosalind Russell
Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures we should put them behind us and go ahead.
Edith Johnson
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.
Audrey Hepburn
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
Marie Dressier
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
Cybil Shepherd
If you have made mistakes even serious ones there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
If you risk nothing then you risk everything.
Geena Davis