Quotes by Actresses - Page 20

Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.
Oprah Winfrey
One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
Marlo Thomas
Opportunities seldom appear wrapped in shiny paper with a big bow as you might hope. Remaining open to the packages they do in fact come in, regardless of how they appear, can lead to hugely profound experiences.
Julieanne O'Connor
You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.
Janet Jackson
Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.
Victoria Wood
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
Yeah, yeah, success is a ladder, a marathon instead of a sprint and all that crap. Everyone can TELL you stuff like that, but you really have to understand advice in relation to YOURSELF, or it's all just nice intellectual theory.
Felicia Day
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
Even now, every job I get, I worry that it will be my last. I think becoming a washed-up hag is sort of my destiny. So if you see a wrinkled old bitch wearing a tattered fur and chain-smoking in an off-Broadway back alley...that’s just me. Starting four years from now.
Anna Kendrick
Numbered are the daysof hunger stricken straysa woman's curving tastea paper police state.
Virginia Petrucci
A lot of young girls think that the opposite of fake is rudeness. And just as ugly as fake is, so is saying whatever is on your mind because it's the truth.
Tyra Banks
Goals and dreams are not purposed to please others. I'd rather be the jester who adds value to those around me than a King with no vision or intention of making a difference.
Janna Cachola
If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.
Tana French
Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing
Melissa McCarthy
We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
Colleen Dewhurst
If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.
Rachel Joyce
Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.
Jean Moreau
And I love everything on this changing, burning earth, but I am most grateful to you.
Katherine Catmull
Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anyway.
Lady Gaga
...things happen when you least expect them. Things that can change your whole life.
Lesley Kagen
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.
Björk
I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later.
Esmeralda Santiago
Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?
Greta Garbo
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
Diane Keaton
Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart,
Paula Abdul
Most photographers have some kind of verbal patter going on when they shoot: "Great. Turn to me. Big smile. Less shark eyes. Have fun with it. Not like that." Some photographers are compulsively effusive. "Beautiful. Amazing. Gorgeous! Ugh, so gorgeous!" they yell at shutter speed. If you are anything less than insane, you will realize this is not sincere. It's hard to take because it's more positive feedback than you've received in your entire life thrown at you in fifteen seconds. It would be like going jogging while someone rode next to you in a slow-moving car, yelling, "Yes! You are Carl Lewis! You're breaking a world record right now. Amazing! You are fast. You're going very fast, yes!
Tina Fey
I had so much respect for the fact that Father Andrew saw his own sins in my actions. I wished all adults were like Father Andrew.
Jenny McCarthy
There will be many times in your lives--- at school, and more particularly when you are a grown up---when people will distract or divert you from what needs to be done. You may even welcome the distraction. But if you use it as an excuse for not doing what you suppose to do, you can blame no one but yourself. If you truly wish to accomplish something, you should allow nothing to stop you, and chances are you'll succeed.
Julie Andrews Edwards
People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.
Tana French
Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.
Chelsea Handler
Your heart doesn't think. Your heart is stupid. It doesn't consider the relativity of tragedy when it breaks.
Molly Ringwald
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.
Tina Fey
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.
Catherine Lacey
Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.
Mae West
If I had known what it would be like to have it all I might have been willing to settle for less.
Lily Tomlin
Of all the lists I’ve made of goals, and all the visions I’ve had, it never before occurred to me that I could be this specific, that I could aspire to a goal actually measurable in inches. I wonder if this is how successful people do it. I wonder if the difference between success and failure could more accurately be described in the waist sizes for jeans.
Lauren Graham
You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.
Ellen DeGeneres
Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood I don't think I'm pretty enough.
Christine Lahti
Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.
Ava Gardner
Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.
Emma Thompson
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
Before that experience, I had often felt the kind of alone that comes from the suspicion that you are not only genetically different from those around you, but different in your very soul...[then] I was a different kind of alone. I was alone and ashamed of myself...it was no one's fault but mine.
Jillian Lauren
I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.
Catherine Lacey
If you're in a country and you want to learn about it, it's a good idea to go and found out what they have to say for themselves; you might want to write a good story about it, when they're not looking.
Marion Davies
My happy place, huh? Well, yeah, I guess that's what music is for me.
Rachel Harris
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
Nicole Kidman
Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.
Francesca Marciano
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Just because you fail once doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything.
Marilyn Monroe
George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.
Margaret Cho
Surrender is Serenity & a Bridge to Bliss.
Julieanne O'Connor
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
He shouldn't want to see her, but he did. He shouldn’t want to know how she felt, how she tasted, but he did. He shouldn’t want to know what food she liked or what she thought about when she was alone. He shouldn’t want to know what her favorite music was or what she did when she wasn't modeling, if she did anything at all, but he did. He wanted to know everything there was to know about Razel D’Punz; the real Razel. No makeup. No costumes. No lights or camera.
Elizabeth Morgan
We all lose our looks eventually better develop your character and interest in life.
Jacqueline Bisset
I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
Gilda Radner
It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.
Carrie Fisher
I would follow my mother around the kitchen watching and trying to find any way to help. One of the first dishes my mother taught me to make was hollandaise sauce. Though she always served it with broccoli, I soon realized it was equally delicious with asparagus, artichokes, or any other vegetable.
Tracy Pollan