Ingenue Quotes - BrainyQuote

I couldn't be an ingenue today, because the business has changed. I remember when you could dress for a premiere just by putting on a cute top. Now you have to be perfect and fabulous in every way, or you're ridiculed.

Dress Business Today Cute

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

Melissa McCarthy

Never Boring Playing Been

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Melissa McCarthy

Friend Weird Never Boring

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

Love Doing Will Playing

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

Challenge Always More Realistic

I would not want to go back to playing the ingenue.

Go Back Want Playing

Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you're older, they still think of you as that girl - that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle.

Success Me Girl You

I've never wanted to be the ingenue. Now that I'm getting into my forties, I think my time as a woman has arrived; I think I might have a new moment in my career. I have that drive left - just for a little while.

Time Moment Woman Drive

There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff.

Time Character You Beyond

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Never Girlfriend Career Pretty

Top 10
Ingenue
Quotes

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

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Girl Doctor Door Never

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

You Yourself Say More

I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.

Women Playing Get Roles

I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.

Age Lady Hard Young

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Work Character You People

My early acting was ingenue stuff.

Sarita Choudhury

Acting Early Stuff

In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.

I Am Feel Reality I Can

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

Myself I Can Trying Different

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Age Getting Older Never Play

Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away.

Me Feel Someone Lucky

To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.

Time You Opinion Boring

I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don't like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

Love Daily Clothes Lie

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.

I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll never be an ingenue. You know, that's over. My shot was missed. I take a normal person and make them more of a character. I don't know what that would be called.

Jennifer Coolidge

Me I Am Character You

I had a professor in graduate school who told us, 'Know what you're good at, and do that thing.' And I thought, 'Hands down, I'm an ensemble girl. I'm a fierce ensemble girl. I am dependable.' I was never seen for the ingenue or the leading lady.

Ruthie Ann Miles

Good Girl I Am You

Loading...

Load more quotes

Explore Topics

Inspirational
Quotes

Motivational
Quotes

Christmas
Quotes

Positive
Quotes

Friendship
Quotes

BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote Of The Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

BQ on Instagram

Apps

iPhone/iPad app

Quote Of The Day Feeds

Javascript and RSS feeds

WordPress plugin

Quote of the Day Email

About

Copyright © 2001 - 2019 BrainyQuote