quotes by Actress Quotes

“This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.”

“It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.”

“I've always taken men just as I found 'em, and thank heavens I've been able to find 'em.”

“There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.”

“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you're heading for a crash. What I'm against is blind flying.”

“As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.”

“I've been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.”

“Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, 'One tear, right now,' that one tear would pop out.”

“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”

“I love to make things happen, I love to see things happen, I love to be a part of things that are happening.”

“Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.”

“I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed.”

“If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.”

“I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.”

“When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.”

“I don't worry about it because we are all growing old. If I were the only one I would worry. But we're all in the same boat, and all of my friends are coming with me. We all go toward old age. How many years left we don't know. We just have to accept it.”

“I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.”

“When people say they are looking for happiness, I ask, What are you giving to the world?”

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.”

“There's no such thing as free love. Have you seen the price of Viagra?”

“I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.”

“I'm looking forward to becoming a marvelous - excuse the word marvelous - character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.”

“What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them.”

“Good women are no fun... The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.”

“Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?”

“If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.”

“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

“I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.”

“I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.”

“The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.”

“This whole celebrity-fame thing is interesting. I'm the same person I always was. The only difference between being famous and not being famous is that people know who you are.”

“Have the boldness to tell yourself the truth - every bit of it.”

“The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.”

“I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.”

“I walk tall; I got a tall attitude.”

“Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.”

“These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!”

“Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.”

“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”

“I tried the Scarsdale diet and the Stillman water diet (you remember that one, where you run weight off trying to get to the bathroom).”

“You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love.”

“There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.”

“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.”

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”

“Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.”

“When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it.”

“When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.”

“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“It was my fans who made me a star.”

“I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.”