Definition of Actress

Actress

A female actor or doer.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

Related Definitions:

Actor, Doer, Female, Or, Part, Stageplayer, Who, Woman

Actress Quotations

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.
Marilyn Monroe

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
Marilyn Monroe

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
Mae West

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead

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

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
Meryl Streep

I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it.
Bette Davis

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand

I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Ingrid Bergman

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
Ingrid Bergman

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!
Loretta Young

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
Loretta Young

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.
Greta Garbo

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.
Brigitte Bardot

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr

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.
Hedy Lamarr

It's quite hard for me being an actress because I actually don't like attention.
Julie Christie

My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
Alicia Keys

I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
Emma Stone

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.
Whoopi Goldberg

I'm fighting the label of "Black" actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.
Whoopi Goldberg

It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
Winona Ryder

As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.
Gene Tierney

The word actress has always seemed less a job description to me than a title.
Gene Tierney

I used up every cent I earned as an actress.
Gene Tierney

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Vivien Leigh

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Actress Translations

actress in Afrikaans is aktrise
actress in Dutch is toneelspeelster, actrice
actress in French is actrice
actress in German is Schauspielerin, Schauspielerin, Darstellerin
actress in Italian is attrice
actress in Portuguese is atriz, actriz
actress in Spanish is actriz

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