Quotes by Actresses - Page 35

Childhood anxieties, childhood fears, never disappear entirely. They fade, but not away.
Lauren Bacall
We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.
Anchee Min
How's Alison getting on?'Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.
Tana French
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
Diane Keaton
Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel.
Demi Lovato
If you’ve raced home after working ten-hour days to get dinner on the table every night for twenty years…you deserve more than absolution from guilt and the kindness you’d give freely to anyone else. You deserve a gold medal.
Linda Gray
Sometimes what may appear as unfair, may actually be a huge favor from the Universe, pushing you in the right direction to live your dreams.
Julieanne O'Connor
There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
Judith Anderson
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
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
I'm as pure as the driven slush.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over he would have put diamonds on the floor.
Joan Rivers
Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.
Miranda July
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
There is nothing sexier than sword fight.
Stana Katic
Apparently, I'm a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas.
Rachel Harris
I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
Katharine Hepburn
As a woman I am so curious about prostitutes because of the idea that they know men better than you. Also, it's such a strange way to live. But at the same time there are prostitutes who just want to be prostitutes, and this is this woman, nobody pushed her to do it. She's a prostitute because she wants to be a prostitute. It's her philosophy of life.
Monica Bellucci
Lies are in the minds, but the truth is in the soul
Sofia Reyes
It's your life and no one else cares as much about it as you should.
Julieanne O'Conner
He [Hamlet] sees ghosts and listens to dreams. And when his ghost father tells him that he (Hamlet Senior) was killed by his brother and asks Hamlet Junior to avenge his death, in the right, honorable way, Hamlet says yes, yes, yes, he'll do it. But somehow he never gets round to it. Not like the other two young men in the play. The Norwegian Prince Fortinbras(...) has made his life [!!] pursuing the honor that his father lost when Hamlet Senior beat him in single combat. (...). When the lord chamberlain,Polonius, is killed, his son, Laertes, returns to the court immediately, demanding restitution, (...). So there is no shortage of examples of how young men are expected to and do act in this world where honor demands an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. But Hamlet doesn't do it. Instead, he beats up on his girlfriend and he's cruel to his mother.
Tina Packer
You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.
Oprah Winfrey
I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.
Jenna Jameson
And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
Rachel Ward
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey
Tell me,Do you feel the way I feel?'Cause nothing else is realIn the La La Land machine
Demi Lovato
Girlfriends aren’t allowed to care if you have Stilton socks. Friends are.” All the same, she gave her hands a quick, professional shake and took hold of my foot. “Plus, you might be less of a pain in the arse if you got more action.
Tana French
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
Meryl Streep
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Marilyn Monroe
Unhappiness can be like a virus spreading from one person, to the next person, to the next one and so on. When someone is mean or rude to you, do not let their unhappiness infect your own life. If you are the unhappy one, please quarantine yourself so you do not infect others!
Jennifer O'Neill
I'd rater share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop
Kate Jackson
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
Marilyn Monroe
Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.
Lena Dunham
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
Oprah Winfrey
The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain while maintaining a strong sense of self-respect. I obeyed his commands, sure that I could fulfill this role while still protecting the sacred place inside of me that I knew deserved more. Different. Better.But that isn't how it works.
Lena Dunham
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
Lady Gaga
Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?
Nicole Richie
We sing because we can't speak anymore. Dance is an extension of that - we dance because we can't speak anymore.
Kristin Chenoweth
You don't get to a place by constantly moving, even if your journey is only one of sitting still and waiting. Every once in a while you have to stop in your tracks and admire the view, a small cloud and a tree outside your window. You have to see what you did not see before. And then you have to sleep.
Rachel Joyce
If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces.
Amy Poehler
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles
Audrey Hepburn
You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.
Shirley Maclaine
Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention…it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce.
Oprah Winfrey
Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything will tie together nicely in the end. But that's life, and I think I'm finally starting to get it.
Jodie Sweetin
You have to believe in marriage and you have to believe in a relationship between two people. If you really think in your life that you have found the right person, you have to stick to it, even though there are ups and downs. If you really believe in your union, you have to nourish it and work for it, then you can really spend your life together forever.
Sophia Loren
Space is entirely poetic.
Mary-Louise Parker
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...
Lena Dunham
I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna
I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.
Katharine Hepburn
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
Lady Gaga
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
When it comes to love, your point of view, your imagination and your energy can carry you through anything. As you love, it will spill over to everyone and everything you encounter and beyond. There is no force imaginable that is more powerful than the act of love.
Julieanne O'Connor
The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.
Lena Dunham
Every age can be enchanting provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
And who is to say that loving a person isn’t just loving the idea of that person and not the actual person, all these incomprehensible clots of flesh with all their years gone by and vanished, all their history stored in basements even they cannot reach?
Catherine Lacey
She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.
Miranda July
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind your talents the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
I love stepping back in time
Frances McCarthy