Actress Quotes: Inspiring Words from Talented Women of the Silver Screen...

"You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense?"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does"

Imelda Staunton, Actress

"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"An actor works with their soul and their thought"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either"

Kim Novak, Actress

"I think my mission is to become the greatest human I can. I know that sounds pompous, but what else do we have?"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"God uses whoever he wants"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there"

Kim Novak, Actress

"And I went through a lot of detours and I took a lot of roads and things so yes, that's all there, but it's not meant to be shocking or telltale"

Kim Novak, Actress

"Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name"

Kim Novak, Actress

"The first time I was in his office was when they called me in to tell me they had changed my name. I had a feeling that if I'd gone along with the name they'd chosen, I'd never be seen again. I'd be swallowed up by that name, because it was a false name: Kit Marlowe"

Kim Novak, Actress

"I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely"

Kim Novak, Actress

"I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front - again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn't"

Kim Novak, Actress

"The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere"

Kim Novak, Actress

"My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know"

Bette Davis, Actress

"That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers"

Bette Davis, Actress

"My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose"

Bette Davis, Actress

"I'd luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair"

Bette Davis, Actress

"No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Eulogy is nice, but one does not learn anything from it"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is"

Ellen Terry, Actress