Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department.
I always get told by women that they would love a daughter-in-law like me. That's big, because not too many people seem to want their son to marry an actress!
I've never felt like a French actress.
I had to come to terms with how I saw myself. I had to understand that I wasn't pretty or beautiful like most actresses and that I shouldn't care about whether other people found me attractive or not.
I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.
When I went back to New York with somewhat of a name, they didn't want movie actresses.
I always took myself really seriously in my 20s and needed everyone to know that I wasn't a spoiled blond actress.
It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.
There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.
The worst fear you can have coming from a modelling background is that you're going to be a model-turned- actress - a mattress, that's what I call them, ironically, I hope.
I would never date or marry an actress. I will marry the girl of my mom's choice.
I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.
It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama.
