Quotes by Actresses - Page 10

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.
Helena Bonham Carter
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
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
How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
Audrey Hepburn
Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.
Lady Gaga
It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.
Patti Page
Emote. It's okay. It shows you are thinking and feeling.
Ellen DeGeneres
If you have enthusiasm you have a very dynamic effective companion to travel with you on the road to somewhere.
Loretta Young
However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.
Amy Poehler
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
Karen Sunde
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren
If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.
Bette Midler
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
Madonna
I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.
Hilary Duff
Definition of a Jewish nymphomaniac: A woman who will make love the same day she has her hair done.
Maureen Lipman
I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.
Joan Rivers
There's nothing a man can do, that i can't do better and in heels
Ginger Rogers
Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.
Charlotte Cushman
It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.
Amy Poehler
The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
You have to stop crying, and you have to go kick some ass.
Lady Gaga
Which came first — the observer or the particle?
Vanna Bonta
Next time, we go slowly. I want to explore every delicious inch of you.
Alexa Grace
I don’t need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
Courtney Love
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.
Portia de Rossi
When you've got the personality you don't need the nudity.
Mae West
You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier could stand on his head and still not be you. Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body. We don't need for you to imitate anybody, because that would be second best. And second best is no better than your worst.
Stella Adler
We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.
Whoopi Goldberg
I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.
Whitney Houston
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
Oprah Winfrey
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do.
Lucille Ball
How long can you be cute?
Goldie Hawn
For as long as I could remember, a part of me had been waiting for the day it would happen; with the cunning that comes to people whose minds have been stripped to one desire, she picked the only day we weren't waiting for.
Tana French
I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
Amy Sedaris
Youth and beauty are not accomplishments. They're the temporary happy byproducts of time and/or DNA. Don't hold your breath for either.
Carrie Fisher
I want you both." I said quietly, not caring that my cheeks had grown warmer. "I have for a while.""If we try this—" Tyler took a deep breath. "And it doesn't feel right—""We'll stop." Kacey promised as he slid his hand beneath my halter neck and began caressing my skin. "You say it baby, and we'll stop and forget all about it."My stomach flipped at the feel of his fingers circling my navel. "And if I don't want to stop?"An unreadable look crossed Tyler’s face and my heart skipped as Kacey moved behind me. The warmth of his body seeped into my back, while his fingers painted trails of heat across my abdomen and along my ribs."Then what happens in Silver Creek, stays in Silver Creek. Unless you decide otherwise." Kacey pressed his lips to my ear. A shiver ran down my neck and spine. "Does that sound fair?
Elizabeth Morgan
What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey
I’m a moon junky. Every time I look at the moon I feel less alone and less afraid. I tell my boys that moonlight is a magic blanket and the stars above are campfires set by friendly aliens.
Amy Poehler
Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.
Shirley Maclaine
He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess.
Demi Lovato
The only place men want depth in their women is in their décolletage
Zsa Zsa Gabor
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down—not because you're drunk and not near stairs.
Ellen DeGeneres
Don't apologize for expressing passion.Don't back down when it comes to your integrity.Don't let anyone undermine your standards for the sake of ease.Be a character of excellence, NOT excuses.
Janna Cachola
Hodel saw it through her sister’s eyes: women were created to be in every way partners, not mindless slaves or brainless doormats, but helpers, collaborators, equals. And that was a thing of great beauty
Alexandra Silber
I used to be snow-white . . . but I drifted.
Mae West
I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it—that she'd be better off not living—and how was I supposed to live after that?
Catherine Lacey
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?
k.d. lang
So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.
Ava Gardner
Do you truly feel that she is worth your wings?”He smiled. “What good are my wings, friend, when I can hold theworld in my arms?
Elizabeth Morgan
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything
Katharine Hepburn
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity�love. And the story of a love is not important�what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
The creation of language is the creation of a fiction. The minute we speak we are in that fiction. It’s a fiction designed, we hope, to reveal a truth. There is no “pure” language. The only “pure language” is the initial sounds of a baby. All of us lose that purity, and as we get more “of” the world, we even lose sometimes the capacity to keep that breath moving in our language.
Anne Deavere Smith
If Harrison was unable to see that I had feelings for him (at least five, but sometimes as many as seven) then he wasn't as smart as I thought he was – as I knew he was.
Carrie Fisher
I guess ignorance is bliss - when I do interviews people always say, "Aren't you upset that people make fun of you?" and I'm like, "Are they making fun of me?" I guess I just don't get it.
Pamela Anderson
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Dolly Parton
There is an unspoken pact that women are supposed to follow. I am supposed to act like I constantly feel guilty about being away from my kids. (I don't. I love my job.) Mothers who stay at home are supposed to pretend they are bored and wish they were doing more corporate things. (They don't. They love their job.) If we all stick to the plan there will be less blood in the streets.
Amy Poehler
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
That's coral!" she cried in astonishment. "We must be down in the deeps of the sea!"Well, wasn't that what you wanted?" said the trout. "I thought you wished you could see the sea!"I did," said Jane, looking very surprised. "But I never expected the wish to come true."Great oceans! Why bother to wish it then? I call that simply a waste of time. But come on! Mustn't be late for the party!
P.L. Travers
I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val’s eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas’ unthinking remark.
Julia Lee Dean