Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love. "

Related Quotes:

" I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale. "

" I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard. "

" Have you seen some of the women - and the men - in Los Angeles? They pay surgeons to make them look completely different in the hope of finding their youth. But youth comes from within. If you have a young attitude, then that can show in your face, the way you walk and move. "

" I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren't afraid of playing their age. "

" I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties. "

" I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once. "

" I consider myself a feminist living in a post-feminist era. "

" I feel so much at home onstage and so comfortable in my body. "

" What I wear is a reflection of where I am going and how I am feeling. If I'm in a good mood, it's got to be cashmere and jeans - just something comfy, soft and warm. When I'm down, I might find something that I haven't worn for a while that was bought for me - or wear a brooch or a pair of shoes that are like old friends. "

" I don't think I'm vain... but I do like to be lit well. "

" I first wanted to be an actress after seeing a play - not a movie. "

" As I get older, I find that cardio is less important to me. What I want to do more of is intense stretching. "

" Most people look at ageing as a disease. They do. They have prescriptions and places where you go to eradicate it. "

" Being a gossip reporter just isn't a respectable job. It'll chew you up and spit you out. "

" There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell. "

" Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed. "

" Theatre is immediate, it's alive, you're there with the audience, it can't be done again and again and again and again, it's organic. "

" When you're filming, you work 19-hour days, and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. "

" There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love. "

" It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play. "

" I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there. "

" I like my life. It's good. "

" I don't really watch television, and I don't watch these shows that promote shows. "

" I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky. "

" You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career? "

" I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act. "

" I try not to listen to the shoulds or coulds, and try to get beyond expectations, peer pressure, or trying to please - and just listen. I believe all the answers are ultimately within us. "

" I was very close to my father. At the age of ten I wanted to do plays, and my father was very encouraging. When I applied to different acting schools, he was right there and very supportive. "

" Once you have a child, that becomes your life, and while that's the way it should be, I sort of have a love affair with my work. Having said that, many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life. "

" The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog. "