"When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.' "

(Olivia Hussey, nata Olivia Osuna Hussey, attrice; Buenos Aires, 17 aprile 1951 – Burbank, 27 dicembre 2024)

 

"Let me start by saying it wasn't like I walked out one day and said, "I quit". It was a very long process of quitting the show. Aaron [producer Aaron Spelling] got as fed up with me as I was with the show, and I think it was because the notoriety was too much. People were hating the character and I couldn't take the abuse that came with that. People couldn't separate me from her and I got sick of people assuming that I was as naughty and bad as Brenda was. It was all very hurtful."

(Shannen Maria Doherty, attrice, regista e attivista per i diritti degli animali; Memphis, 12 aprile 1971 – 13 luglio 2024)

 

"I spent many years with low self-esteem, but the cancer has given me the gift of seeing how many people love me."

(Wendie Jo Sperber, attrice; Hollywood, 15 settembre 1958 – Sherman Oaks, 29 novembre 2005)

Jeanne Bates, modella e attrice, soprattutto in tv. Famosa per l'interpretazione dell'infermiera Wills nella serie televisiva Ben Casey  tra il 1961 e il 1966 (Berkeley, 21 maggio 1918 – Los Angeles, 28 novembre 2007)

"Women never have young minds. They are born 3,000 years old."

(Shelagh Delaney, all'anagrafe Sheila Mary Delaney, drammaturga e scrittrice, famosa per A Taste of Honey che dopo il grande successo in teatro divenne anche un film diretto da Tony Richardson; Broughton, 25 novembre 1938 – Suffolk, 20 novembre 2011)

 

"I think people underestimate the power that they have within themselves, I really do, and I think these kinds of challenges, they force you to look that little bit deeper and see what you're really made of. I always knew I was pretty strong. I've always been pretty gutsy and pretty ballsy, but I think I surprised myself this time around." parlando della sua vita dopo la scoperta di avere un grave tumore.

(Belinda Jane Emmett, cantante e attrice in diverse serie tv australiane; Gosford, 12 aprile 1974 – Sydney, 11 novembre 2006)

 

"I think the reason actresses are taking a backseat to actors is that they're putting the wrong women on screen. They seem to put a new fashion model in a starring role every year. And being simply pretty isn't enough. It's boring. Using models in place of actresses implies that women have nothing to contribute to the screen. Acting is a profession and a special talent is involved. Films have moved away from pretty boys to actors with interesting faces. It's time they did the same thing with actresses."

(Sandra Louise Anderson nata Smith, conosciuta con lo pseudonimo di Sondra Locke, attrice e regista; Shelbyville, 28 maggio 1944 – Los Angeles, 3 novembre 2018)

 

"The 1980s were such a shock for me. I was really young, obviously, and The Slits were just mutilated. We were totally sabotaged to such a point that we were put out in exile. So that was the best way for me to spend the '80s: in the jungle, naked. Maybe there are more options now, and there's more girl groups. The only thing good that came out of the '80s was breakdancing."

(Ari Up, pseudonimo di Ariane Daniela Forster, cantante e leader della band femminile The Slits; Monaco di Baviera, 17 gennaio 1962 – Los Angeles, 20 ottobre 2010)

 

"My goal in life is to become the person my dog thinks I am."

(Suzanne Somers, nome d'arte di Suzanne Marie Mahoney, attrice; San Bruno, 16 ottobre 1946 – 15 ottobre 2023)

 

"There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England!"

 (Olivia Newton-John, cantante e attrice; Cambridge, 26 settembre 1948 – Santa Ynez, 8 agosto 2022)

 

"It's fascinating, getting inside the actresses you're singing for. It's like cutting off the top of their heads and seeing what's underneath. You have to know how they feel, as well as how they talk, in order to sing as they would sing -- if they could sing."

 (Margaret "Marni" Nixon McEathron, soprano, attrice e doppiatrice; Altadena, 22 febbraio 1930 – New York, 24 luglio 2016)

 

"Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot."

 (Minnie Riperton, cantautrice con una voce di 4 ottave e mezza; Chicago, 8 novembre 1947 – Los Angeles, 12 luglio 1979)

 

"When I married John, I put my career on hold to be a wife and to have a child. Before that I didn't have a fabulous career, but I was working. When I decided to resume acting, I had become Mrs. Travolta in many people's eyes so I had to prove myself all over again."

 (Kelly Kamalelehua Smith, meglio nota come Kelly Preston, coniugata Travolta, attrice e modella; Honolulu, 13 ottobre 1962 – Clearwater, 12 luglio 2020)

" I have a man for every occasion. When I was a kid growing up, I used to read my father's Playboy and I'd see those guys and they had fantastic cars and apartments. I have all of that now. Why would I want to hook myself up with one man when I've had two fantastic men in my life? One was my husband for 20 years and one was my fiance for six years."

(Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins, romanziera e attrice; Londra, 4 ottobre 1937 – Beverly Hills, 19 settembre 2015)

"You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment."

(Judy Holliday, pseudonimo di Judith Tuvim, attrice; New York, 21 giugno 1921 – New York, 7 giugno 1965)

"I don't like that putdown: that when you're trying to achieve, you're trying to be white. That makes me mad."

(Roxie Albertha Roker, attrice nera di successo sposata con un bianco; Miami, 28 agosto 1929 – Los Angeles, 2 dicembre 1995)

"Flops are part of a life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."

(Rosalind Russell, attrice; Waterbury, 4 giugno 1907 – Beverly Hills, 28 novembre 1976)

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should ALL be bigger than life."

(Bette Davis, pseudonimo di Ruth Elizabeth Davis, attrice; Lowell, 5 aprile 1908 – Neuilly-sur-Seine, 6 ottobre 1989)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

(Ingrid Bergman, attrice; Stoccolma, 29 agosto 1915 – Londra, 29 agosto 1982)

"I meet young women who say Batgirl was their role model. They say it's because it was the first time they ever felt girls could do the same thing guys could do, and sometimes better. I think that's lovely."

(Yvonne Joyce Craig, attrice e ballerina; Taylorville, 16 maggio 1937 – Pacific Palisades, 17 agosto 2015)