Quotes by Actresses - Page 7

Their banter was rich and comfortable, their teasing intimate and profound; their 'I love you' without the use of those startling words.

Sarah Winman

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.

Ruth Gordon

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

Joan Rivers

Happy girls are the prettiest

Audrey Hepburn

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

Rachel Ward

If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.

Tana French

I’m not paralyzed by fear about what might have been or what might be. I’m grateful for what is and I make excellent use of what I’ve got.

Linda Gray

Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.

Priscilla Presley

But this is what I know about people getting ready to walk of the edge of their own lives: they want someone to know how they got there. Maybe they want to know that when they dissolve into earth and water, that last fragment will be saved, held in some corner of someone's mind; or maybe all they want is a chance to dump it pulsing and bloody into someone else's hands, so it won't weigh them down on the journey. They want to leave their stories behind. No one in all the world knows that better than I do.

Tana French

She never knows when it might strike. The rage. And when it does, she loses her grip on herself—literally. At times, she could swear she sees another self—shiny black phantom, faceless, as though clad in a bodysuit—leaping out of her, pulling the rest of her in its wake. Over the edge.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Audrey Hepburn

Those that have lost their lives to suicide were good people, who were in deep, deep pain. Keep speaking about mental illness and keep it out of the darkness.

Mariel Hemingway

I don't think success is harmful as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

Jeanne Moreau

There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?

Ellen DeGeneres

This probably isn’t something you’re supposed to say at a moment like this, but I think the moon is seriously overrated.” A moment like what? I bite my cheeks, taming the grin that threatens to take over my face.“And the stars?” I ask, once the smile is under control.“Wildly underrated,” he declares with a grin. He looks up again. “The sky is a storybook,” he says then. “Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

Lauren Miller

There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and the person you love, and a time when love hurts so badly that you will wish you wouldn't wake up. I say this. Always, always, always approach love with the heart of the angel you were born with.

Julieanne O'Connor

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Miranda July

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Sophia Loren

You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good enough for you and you must find a way to be fine with the delay because it is your whole life and the minute you really go missing is the minute you can no longer miss.

Catherine Lacey

Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

Julieanne O'Connor

I really admired other parents I saw running around with their kids. I thought, "How nice is that for their children?" But they also left me racked with guilt--until one mother, out of the dozens I met, told me I shouldn't feel bad. "You're not your daughter's playmate," she said, and I nearly burst out in tears, because I needed to hear that so badly.

Leah Remini

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Oprah Winfrey

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

Eleonora Duse

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Audrey Hepburn

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

Whoopi Goldberg

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating drinking and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Sarah Bernhardt

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Gilda Radner

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

Oprah Winfrey

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

Nicole Kidman

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

Oprah Winfrey

Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.

Rachel Ward

Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

Amy Poehler

Accepting uncertainty was the key to happiness.

Catherine Lacey

Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.

Miranda Hart

There is no such thing as a perfect person in this world. We all must become the main characters or the stars of our lives. We are all different and start differently. But from whatever is our circumstances, it is very important that we find the opportunities to try out what we want to do.

Goo Hye Sun

If you're good at this job, and I am, then every step in a murder case moves you in one direction: towards order. We get thrown shards of senseless wreckage, and we piece them together until we can lift the picture out of the darkness and hold it up to the white light of day, solid, complete, clear. Under all the paperwork and the politics, this is the job; this is its cool shining heart that I love with every fiber of mine. This case was different. It was running backwards, dragging us with it on some ferocious ebb tide. Every step washed us deeper in black chaos, wrapped us tighter in tendrils of crazy and pulled us downwards.

Tana French

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife

Shelley Winters

I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high... even if it quivers.

Rachel Harris

Zero cavities.Two abortions. One divorce.Thirty years on Earth.

Asa Akira

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

Mindy Kaling

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

Lady Gaga

Self-leadership is the most effective way to train leaders. How do you do that? Empower them to make decisions, you as a leader back them up and allow them to follow through

Janna Cachola

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Jackie Collins

That is what I love best about dreams, and about makings, good makings. They are folded-up buds of complications and mysteries, and if you stay with them patiently, they will unfold and unfold, and never stop unfolding. Dreams are flowers that never stop blooming.

Katherine Catmull

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

Joan Rivers

Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.

Raven Symone

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you.

Holly Robinson

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

Lynn Redgrave

Life's not that simple. Not so easy to move on when the anger you've got is what keeps you going.

Rachel Ward

There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers.

Chelsea Handler

When one contemplated Portia, when one contemplated Sharon, when one contemplated one's own apparently pointless, utterly trivial being, the questions hung all around one, as urgent as knives at the throat. But the instant one tried to grasp one of them and turn it to one's own purpose and pierce through the murk, it became blunt and useless as a piece of cardboard.

Deborah Eisenberg

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

Chelsea Handler

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

Caroline Rhea

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Ingrid Bergman

The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease.

Leanna Renee Hieber

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music that song that vibration of God that was inside of me.

Shirley Maclaine

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Margaret Cho

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