“Actually I never felt I would succeed on the screen. This I must face, I'm not the greatest beauty in the world.”
Jennifer Jones

“To be a success an actress must have the face of Venus, the brain of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory or Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.
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Ethel Barrymore

“The actor who thinks too much is troubled by one ambition: to be great. This is a terrible obstacle and it carries with it the risk that his playing may be deprived of much of its truthfulness.”
Michelangelo Antonioni

“For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.”
Alan Arkin

“I'll have to have a palace, of course. I may not be a princess, but I am a movie queen, and every queen should have a palace.”
Jayne Mansfield