But I've never felt that being an actress is being in a comfortable place. It's seen from the outside that we're being driven in big cars and having these gorgeous suites and all of that. But come on, it's not about that.

— Juliette Binoche

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum.

— Romola Garai

In government, one actress is enough.

— Evita Peron

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 cliché.

— Elizabeth Olsen

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

— Jenny Eclair

My Nana was an actress, my mom was an actress, and my sister, too. So because I was surrounded by it, it really came naturally.

— Chris Pine

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

— Katharine Hepburn