Famous quotes by Actresss

"When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it"

"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids"

"I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to be able to be a character in the 30s and there are these actresses that I really liked in the 40s, 50s and 60s in American movies that I've seen since I was a little girl. But you don't really think like that when you prepare for a role"

"Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband"

"Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool"

"I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me"

"I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names"

"Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is"

"I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure"

"Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring"

"I never loved another person the way I loved myself"

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before"

"I realized that public affairs were also my affairs"

"To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation"

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere"

"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it"

"I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle"

"Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives"

"I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel"

"If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life"

"The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life"

"I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out"

"My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night"

"Kirk is a man, and he loves it. He loves women"

"This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth"

"Every actor in the room honored Sidney for being there so many years before. And everybody was so moved to be at a place where history was being made again. It was tangible"

"I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way"

"I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died"

"Personally, I think tying garbage bags around your head and hands is overkill"