Quotes on Actresses

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates a character. She understood photography, and she also understood what makes a great photograph. She related to it as if she were giving a performance. She gave more to the still camera than any actress-any woman- I've ever photographed.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

I'm proud of my wrinkles. They give my face character. As an actress, you mess with that at your peril.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

Playing good girls in the '30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

I love movies, but sometimes I think it's better for actresses not to be total cinephiles. You have to be able to do the work at some point; you can't be totally starstruck. 'I can't believe it's Woody Allen!' You have to get past that.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

The white actresses I have known have been allowed to do 10 times more than I shall ever do.

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.

In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas 'Sex And The City' had these characters where the women had their own independent stories.

Creativity does not stop just because you're over 50. Hollywood spits female actresses out after age 29, but you don't stop creating. If anything, you become wiser and even better.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.