I was 11 when I first said I wanted to become an actress, and everyone looked at me as if I had said I wanted to go to the moon.
If I was not an actress, I would be a homeopathic doctor.
Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.
I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.
Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.
Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.
Anybody can say she's an actress. It's another thing to get a job.
As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life.
In government, one actress is enough.
It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.
Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L. A. , with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.
I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.
When I grow up, I want to be an actress. But I want to be a legend of something.
I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.
Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally.
You're an actress! It's not about your ideas! You're there to tell other people's stories.
As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.
Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.