I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

- Anna Chancellor

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

- Joan Allen

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.

- Kelli O'Hara

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

- Kristen Johnston

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.

- Lea Salonga

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

- Melissa McCarthy

When you say you're 40, you can't call yourself an ingenue any more.

- Molly Ringwald

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

- Ming-Na Wen