I actually love actresses who look like they feel really natural. I like Patricia Clarkson, Laura Linney, Frances McDormand. Those are actresses where the second they show up on screen you're like, oh my gosh, this movie just got so much better.

- Anna Kendrick

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

- Alicia Silverstone

Natalie Portman is one of my favorites, and Jodie Foster. Those two are amazing actresses.

- Alexa Vega

I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.

- Abbey Clancy

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed.

- Annette Bening

I don't see myself as having to compete with younger actresses; I don't feel that.

- Annette Bening

I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way.

- Annette Bening

When I was a teenager, I would have tried anything that an actress I liked was doing to get thin.

- Anne Hathaway

There's a difference between being an actress who can sing and being a Sally Song-and-Dance.

- Anna Kendrick

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

- Anna Kendrick

I think the era of the diva actress is coming to an end.

- Amanda Seyfried

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

- Anna Deavere Smith

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

- Amy Adams

I'm not the kind of actress who asks a lot of questions of my directors unless it's something I really need to know.

- Amy Adams

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

- Amy Adams

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

- Amy Adams

Part of me relates to Perez Hilton because he's an outcast. I don't have a lot of friends who are actresses. They're catty, and they'll cut you down. I like that Perez is proud of who he is and doesn't care what anybody thinks.

- Amanda Bynes

There are loads of actresses that modelled. They just weren't famous. There weren't a lot that were really known as models that became actresses, but there are hordes of them that did modelling before such as Anjelica Huston, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone, Demi Moore and Geena Davis. There are loads of 'em.

- Andie MacDowell

There are lots of great actresses who are great because they'll do anything.

- Andie MacDowell

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

- Amy Poehler