Quotes by Actresses - Page 4

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Adams

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're in Los Angeles, where everyone's so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you're down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you're depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong.

Mindy Kaling

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Joan Collins

Non-attachment grounded in faith allows good to return to you.

Julieanne O'Connor

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

Marilyn Monroe

I long ago came to the understanding that the problems I once had with food were not merely about food. Eating was a way of trying to fill up the emptiness, to provide comfort. It was a substitute for love. I'm not referring to the love that comes from someone else. The love that was missing from my life was self-love. With age I've discovered a sense of worth that makes me less hungry. A piece of cake is just a piece of cake.

Valerie Harper

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Miranda July

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

Sophia Loren

Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart.

P!nk

Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself

Tanya Burr

I am that woman...A woman with compassion and empathyAn alluring woman whose beauty emanates from the insideA woman of courage and perseveranceA woman gifted with many talentsA woman who has so much to give and know where she is goingA woman who is everything but lost without you.

Julie Cox

Things haven't always been this bad, therefore they won't always be this bad.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

The thought crossed my mind that this could be dangerous. Not the ill-advised sex with the just-out-of-his-teens pop star, but the cuddling. The lying there, drinking in his scent, watching his chest rise and fall, allowing myself to bask in my own happiness. I could fall in love this way.

Robinne Lee

Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich

Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

Amy Poehler

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

Francesca Marciano

Past love is as good as a past dream, intangible, impossible to share.

Catherine Lacey

Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, undermined, then gone.

Abigail Tarttelin

Everything I learned I learned from themovies.

Audrey Hepburn

...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange pool of city glow coming through the window, smelling heady curry spices spiraling across the corridor and listening to two guys outside yelling at each other in Russian and someone practicing stormy flamboyant violin somewhere, and slowly realizing that there was not a single person in the world who could see me or ask me what I was doing or tell me to do anything else, and I felt as if at any moment the bedsit might detach itself from the buildings like a luminous soap bubble and drift off into the night, bobbing gently above the rooftops and the river and the stars.

Tana French

I have nothing! Nothing! If I don't have you.

Whitney Houston

I am aware that true miracles, things unexplained by human reason, can only occur when Jesus does them.

Gail Davis

That was why Peg loved the Messiah best of all. Because it showed people they were not alone. No matter about their differences, the music lifted them up and lowered them down, only to raise them even higher. It worked like a spell.

Rachel Joyce

I never stop myself from doing something because I’m afraid of what people might think.

Zooey Deschanel

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

Eva Peron

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Kelley. Your name is Kelley, isn't it?" He didn't wait for her confirmation. "Yes. Well. Tell me...that bit just now...was that from Dante's Inferno?"Uh...no," Kelley stammered. Her face felt hot.Really?"I'm in for it.Are you sure?" he continued. "Because it most certainly wasn't from this play. And it bloody well sounded like hell.

Lesley Livingston

Success has killed more men than bullets.

Texas Guinan

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Lady Gaga

Guilt is unavoidable for mothers.

Linda Gray

All I want to convey to anyone who is suffering while they're young is that sometimes you get a reprieve when you're older. Maybe it's just your perception that changes, but somehow it eases up, because life ebbs and flows. When you're ebbing, maybe you're strengthening your perspective of the world. And when you're flowing, maybe you can use everything to create, to write, to sing, act, and eventually stand taller and see farther.

Cyndi Lauper

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Bette Midler

Apparently, I'm a sucker for a man with belt buckles the size of Texas.

Rachel Harris

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

Gypsy Rose Lee

I had heard my brothers and sisters use curse words but had never dared use one myself in front of anyone. But I had practiced alone in my room lots of times, trying out different cadences and into nations: 'Fuck, fuck, fuck you, fucknut. Shit, shitstain, fucker! Go fuck a duck, you asswipe!' My favorite was, 'What a fucking cocksucker.' The plan was to say this casually to one of my new friends while one of our teachers walked by. No one in kindergarten ever really got my sense of humor, so I was hell-bent on making my mark in the first grade.

Chelsea Handler

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibi

Susan Sarandon

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:“It takes courage.It takes believing in it.It takes work.It takes rising above it.It takes me liking you, and you liking me.It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.Never stop dreaming.Think about it.

Gloria Vanderbilt

We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves.

Rita Hayworth

People see God every day they just don't recognize Him.

Pearl Bailey

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

Leni Riefenstahl

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

Bette Davis

Marriage is the deep deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise longue.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I seem to have an awful lot of people inside me.

Edith Evans

When you're a kid, you have these big dreams and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference

Annasophia Robb

If you believe then you hang on. If you believe it means you've got imagination you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint and don't face facts - what can stop you? If I don't make it today I'll come in tomorrow.

Ruth Gordon

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

Mindy Kaling

Her pulse pounded in her ears. She didn't need to turn around to know he was standing behind her. Most likely with a smirk at catching her impromptu belly dance.

Rachel Harris

In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

Shelley Winters

My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

Chelsea Handler

Always be yourself, there's no one better!

Selena Gómez

But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.

Lauren Bacall

It's either perfect, or it's the worst thing ever made and everyone is an artistic failure, including myself. (Yay, emotional extremes!)

Felicia Day

And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.

Miranda July

There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

Alethea Kontis

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

Raquel Welch

She saw night lights in the rooms of the babies who dreamed soft seersucker dreams, drugged happy with the heat, their pink baby bodies curled against worn out cotton, not fearing Hitler yet, their strong, tiny hearts beating in unison with the trees and the creeks and the bayou

Rebecca Wells

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

Margaret Cho

When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love.

Elisabeth Rohm

Whenever she walked along the streets of Manhattan, she looked at all the different faces coming toward her and, despite their different features and colors, she regarded them all as Americans.

Francesca Marciano

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