#actress

At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer. ↗

— Tanith Lee

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You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a 'superstar' gets me good roles, then that's a positive thing. But my goal isn't just to be a superstar. It's to act for a long time. ↗

— Penelope Ann Miller

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I never had any desire to become a well-known actress. ↗

— Rebecca Miller

#any #become #desire #had #i

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#hard #i #method #sing #songs

I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan. ↗

— Judd Nelson

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I'm not really an actress type. I'm an entertainer. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#entertainer #i #really #type

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career. ↗

— Donald Pleasence

#career #curtis #early #even #felt

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

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My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#been #call #came #downtown #guess