Legendary Actresses Quotes

There are lots of actresses I consider to be my icons, from Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly to Diane Keaton and Meryl Streep.

I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.

Lana Turner and Ava Gardner were my special friends at MGM.

I like Meryl Streep and Jodie Foster. Among Indian actress, I prefer Madhubala and Nutan.

It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Gena Rowlands is my all-time love. Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer. I grew up watching their work; they are extraordinary.

I'm very honored to play one of the women in the movie Volver, and it was special acting with all those other talented actresses. Carmen Maura is a legend and it was a thrill to make a movie with her.

Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.