Being An Actress Quotes

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.
- Lauren Ambrose

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.
- Elizabeth Ashley

Outside of being an actress, I feel like being out is the biggest way that gay people can change perception. There are people that give millions of dollars to gay organizations but are closeted to their own families.
- Jill Bennett

But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.
- Juliette Binoche

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
- Juliette Binoche

Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
- Jordana Brewster

I never really thought about being an actress or being anything like that. I was always a bit scared as well because of the thing about models becoming an actress and all that.
- Gisele Bundchen

Being an actress isn't as fun as it may seem. If I don't love something, I stop doing it. I don't love acting anymore, so I've stopped doing it.
- Amanda Bynes

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.
- Julie Christie

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
- Marilyn Monroe

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.
- Maria Grazia Cucinotta

The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
- Julie Delpy

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn't look the way I looked, I would never have started in films.
- Catherine Deneuve

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
- Angie Dickinson

From the time I was very young, maybe five or six, I thought a lot about being an actress. I didn't tell my friends about my ambitions, though, especially when I got older, because I thought they would not receive them well. I never talked about what I wanted to do.
- Louise Fletcher

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
- Lynn Fontanne

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.
- Anna Friel

The best thing about being an actress is getting good concert tickets.
- Sara Gilbert

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.
- Maggie Gyllenhaal

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
- Beth Henley

I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward.
- Judy Holliday

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent. It's a way of being untalented for anything.
- Isabelle Huppert

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
- Anjelica Huston

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.
- Jaime King

Being an actress is to be in tune with the fantasies of a man. What woman never dreamt of that?
- Jeanne Moreau

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
- Phylicia Rashad

I don't see myself being an actress forever.
- Carrie Snodgress

I don't know where I'm going to be in three years. Because I have the feeling that the future is so full of possibilities, to stop being an actress, to do something else... for me, the future is just a huge bunch of discoveries.
- Audrey Tautou

I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
- Olivia Thirlby

I find it difficult to explain, but I'm quite ashamed of being an actress.
- Kristin Scott Thomas

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.
- Cicely Tyson

I am only an actress when they say, 'action' and I stop being an actress when they say, 'cut'. I am a normal person outside of acting.
- Paz Vega

You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
- Beatrice Wood