Actress Career Quotes

I was a waitress years ago when I was first trying to become an actress, waiting tables in New York City.

All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress.

I never needed anyone when I became an actress. I ran off to England on my own.

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.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress.

I never thought I would become an actress.

I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

Though I love cinema, I had never thought of becoming an actress.

I try not to get typecast in any role, any image. I feel I can do justice to every kind of role, so why not make the best of it? See, commercial films alone can get you only so far. If you want to last as an actress, then you have to put in that extra bit of investment by doing off-beat films, too.

I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'

I went from being a jobbing actress who was just earning a living to being the second most photographed woman in Britain, next to Princess Diana - but it was exciting, too, and I wouldn't have swapped it for a second.

Be it commercial or offbeat, I want to establish myself as an actress.

Katherine Heigl was a movie star. I thought she was going to be one, and it was fun to watch this young actress getting better every day.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

I never really decided to be an actress, but I got an agent, was called back on every show I auditioned for, and finally decided I was meant to be an actress.

I have proved my skills as an actress who can perform both character and glamour roles and 'Uyir' would take me to greater heights.

I really admire actresses like Meryl Streep; I would love to have a career like hers.

You know I'm proud of all of them but I think that I am most proud of all my businesses and just being a business woman and being able to do that as well as you know hold my career as an actress.

I realized that good looks is not enough to be an actress for a long time.

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.

I feel like I go through cycles as an actress.