Actresses From New York City

"Like most female actresses, I am always aspiring to succeed and become a popular star, and my positive energy never dies out. And it wasn’t until entering my twenties that I began to identify my real dream as an actress. I realized that acting is not all about receiving people’s applause or cheer. It is about delivering the right character to the audience and feeling satisfied in who you become on stage. Therefore, I try to focus more on the abstract qualities of acting, and I hope to become a better actress throughout time."

"I think there are various sides to my personality. However, to simply summarize into one, I am a flexible person. I’m not bound by rules. I enjoy talking to people while standing, and even comfortably sitting down on the ground. I seek comfort wherever and whenever. I have a pretty lenient personality, but sometimes can be aggressive as well. But this is only seen when I am acting on stage."

"Instead of traveling, I tend to think about a variety of things while filming or working abroad. When I play a different role, my perspectives and ideas change each time."

"Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl I was trying."

"Her stickly, muscly little body thrashes beside me every night .. even as I slipped my hand into my underwear .. I always pretended to hate it."

"Whatever she wanted to watch on TV if she would just "relax on me.""

"Three pieces of candy if I could kiss her on the lips for five seconds."

"Grace was sitting up, babbling and smiling, and I leaned down between her legs and carefully spread open her vagina. She didn't resist"

"I tried to have a child. Along the way, my body broke. My relationship did, too. In the process—because of it?"

"The professional food world is dominated by men. But most of the actual cooking of food in the world is done by women. And we women have always had to make do with whatever we can. We’re a little bit like water—we find our way because we’ve had to."

"And the truth is, models are freaks of nature. We are not normal people, and we're just born this way because of a genetic cocktail that our parents gave to us. You know, most of us have a really high metabolism."

"Rejection is a part of my job. It has been a part of my career as a food person and a filmmaker. It was certainly part of my job as an actor, and even more part of a job as a model. So, it is something that I have to accept. It’s not for the faint of heart."

"The world is getting bigger and smaller at the same time. The possibilities and opportunities to taste different kinds of foods are much more prevalent today than even 10 or 15 years ago. At the same time, because people are traveling, in spite of certain parts of the world that are dangerous, you do get to try more things. With the Internet and Instagram, you get to know about all these funky dishes."

"Just by the very fact that my mother divorced my father — it was so taboo to have a divorce in India and you were ostracized — I saw her break barriers within her own life."

"You know how you’re completely different with your mom than you are with your best friend, than you are with your romantic partner, than you are with your boss? They’re just different facets of me."

"I would love to write more children’s books. I think children can understand complex things so long as you explain them in words they can wrap themselves around."

"New York City was my first introduction to America. It was a beautiful welcome because in the streets I saw people of all colors, wearing different outfits, clearly from different parts of the world. While I was still feeling like a foreigner, an immigrant, an outsider, there were so many people I could point to even as a young child who looked completely different, too."

"I wanted to do a show to give people whom I have grown up with, whether they were Filipino, Mexican or whatever, the platform to speak for themselves."

"The best way to improve matters in your own actions is to first understand and accept the reasons for systemic prejudice and how that discrimination manifests in people’s lives over generations. Then you have to accept the ways in which some groups — perhaps your own — have benefited from this societal favoritism. And then you have to open your mouth and be an active member of your community to vote out elected officials who are part of the problem."

"Growing older gracefully means having a keen curiosity about learning things about the world that you didn’t know yesterday, no matter how many yesterdays you've had."

"I like to think of smiling as a cause not an effect. Smile all the time."

"There's a lot that we keep inside that's starts very early for most us, if you look at kids, kids are for the most part very expressive, they yell, they scream, they cry, they say whatever they feel, they like to play, they like to pretend, they get mad, they cry easily, and it's not about being about that again, but it's that kind of freedom, that kind of spontaneity that often we loose early on because we're shut down by experiences that hurt, by people who can't stand that kind of intensity that children have and try to get them to shut up and behave."

"I think it's lovely to have one part for which you're known. Some actors work all their lives and never achieve this. But acting is what I do; it's not what I am. And I have always had a varied acting career and a very full life beyond my acting endeavors."

"I must quote Dan Rather … "I can control my reputation, but not my image because my image is how you see me" … I love rock 'n' roll and going to concerts. I have driven army tanks and flown in hot air balloons and I go plane gliding-the ones with no motors. I do lots of things that don't go hand-in-hand with my image."

"When people come up to me and say, "Well, sure wish we had wonderful American shows like that the way we used to in the '50s," I say: "Let me tell you who wrote those scripts." … Yes, they were good Americans, and they were in jail."

"I never never thought it would be like this. … Chemically I'm not put together for anything like this. I'm not sexy. I honestly thought if I did steady, sensible work that maybe when I was 30 or 35 I would get approval as a good actress."

"I have been a music fan forever … The Beatles, Stones, Chicago, David Bowie, Huey Lewis and the News, Tina Turner. … We threw a Halloween party at my home in the late '60s, and I hired a band called Hour Glass … They were fantastic. Truly talented guitars, keyboards and vocals … then they changed their name to the Allman Brothers Band."

"June Lockhart has burst on Broadway with the suddenness of an unpredicted comet."

"I loved my craft and my cast members. … I never forgot that it is all make-believe."

"Goodbye to the brilliant June Lockhart … A one of a kind, talented, nurturing, adventurous, and non compromising Lady. She did it her way. … June will always be one of my very favorite moms … 100 years here. Wow! R.I.P. 👍🏼✌️❤️🙏🏻"

"I did Lassie for six years and I never had anybody come up to me and say, "It made me want to be a farmer.""

"I was over the moon – pun intended. … I have been told that my contribution inspired many astronauts to pursue a career in space science and exploration … it is lovely to know that I touched so many people by doing things that interested me!"

"The dogs were always totally concentrated on their trainers. … They were not fed before filming, and the trainers would stand on either side of the set and hold up a piece of meat to make Lassie look to the right or left."

"I of course love doing is film and theater, so I really like that, it’s a shorter term commitment, it’s an opportunity to explore different actors and different characters and also to work with better and better artists. More and more artists at the top of the, at the cream of the crop and learn from them. So, that’s a joy. That you can be in that company and then now, it’s helping younger or not necessarily younger, but newer artists in film and independent film, and certainly being the established actor, with people making their Broadway debut, it is great"

"I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre,” she explains. “The trend more recently has been to apologise, or be snarky, so it’s an anti-romcom.” Out comes that wide smile. “Just lean in and embrace the fact it’s a love story and it’s funny and it’s light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues."

"Cruelty in cinema can give us perspective and insight but I’m not a fan of horror as an adrenaline rush or a desensitizing mechanism, I prefer horror movies that elucidate the human condition."

"I prefer to be surprised. I’m a shape-shifter and a yogi who loves well crafted indie films with deep themes, but lately my main requirement is that a film be released. It’s disheartening to invest time and love into a good film with a limited release. Therefore, the more mainstream projects are a better gamble."

"…I was doing a promotion for Sounder. And after the film was completed, this journalist said that he discovered a bit of bigotry in himself. But he realized that this Black boy ... [actor] Kevin Hooks calls his father Daddy. And when I asked why, he said, "That's what my son calls me." And I tell you, I was so stunned. It took me a few minutes to catch my breath in order to question whether this man thought that we were human. You know, why can't my son call his Black father Daddy, as his sons called him. And it was at that time that I decided I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were certain issues I had to address and I would use my career as my platform."

"The truth is, I've always been quietly proud of my real age. Why wouldn't I want to celebrate every crease in my brow, all that hard-earned wisdom that lives between the folds? If my first manager, Warren Coleman, hadn't been so insistent that I age myself down—he feared, and perhaps rightfully so, that an industry rife with female age discrimination would count me out of a lot of roles—I may have just omitted my age, rather than changing it. It's nobody's business. But when the Kennedy Center honor came around, I felt it was important to set the public record straight. Months before I learned I was to receive the award, I'd celebrated my ninetieth birthday. During the press blitzkrieg surrounding the Kennedy Center ceremony, I spoke that number aloud with nary a quake in my voice. "When were you born?" one reporter asked me. "December 19, 1924," I answered. For me, it was not a matter to be ashamed of. It was a journey to delight in."

"I wish people knew the Miles Davis that I knew. Really. Because you can walk into a bookstore and you see reams of books about Miles Davis. And few people who wrote those books know him. The Miles Davis that I know and knew is not the Miles Davis that you'll read about in those books. I had the good fortune to be close enough to him to have him reveal himself to me the first moment we met. It is the Miles Davis that kept me with him as long as it did. Not only was he brilliantly talented, he was brilliantly sensitive. And that is the Miles Davis that people ... don't know that he was trying to protect."

"…it happened because I learned that I could speak through other people. I was a very shy child. I was an observer. I would sit and observe and listen and watch people's actions in order to understand what they were. I wanted to know what prompted them to say and do the things that they did. I sucked my fingers for 12 years. I never spoke ... but I was a great observer."

"Just stick with it. Just stick with it. There's always a reason why you keep going in the direction you chose to go in."

"I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it."

"Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew. They are what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm"

"My parents began their married life together in a Bronx tenement before later relocating to Manhattan's East Side. The year after they wed, they welcomed my brother, Melrose, a name my father had loved since the day he spotted it on a street sign in the Bronx. Six days before Christmas in 1924, I arrived with my thumb poked in my mouth and nary a strand of hair. A year and a half later, my sister, Emily, came along to complete our family, crossing the "T" on the Tyson five."

"To thine on self be true." "Do that, and you’ll have no regrets."

"My life changed when I started eating raw and unprocessed foods. I went from being a tired and sick model who was taking medicine for everything, to a vibrant self-confident woman who ate more than she had in years. Through a raw diet … I became more conscious of what I was putting in my body every day, at every meal, even when I was snacking. Going raw and eating real food helped me realize that food is the fuel my body needs to function at its optimal level—not something to help me cope with my emotions or to simply make me feel full. When I took time to learn about the food I was consuming and the role that diet played in my overall health, I realized its power. Food, more than anything else, has the ability to heal and mend our bodies. For the first time in my life, I was able to form a different relationship with food—one that focused on the positive aspects of eating foods that gave me energy, boosted my mood, soothed my ailments, and helped me feel alive. What you eat impacts every part of your life. If you change your food, you change your life."

"When I was modeling, food was either my best friend or my worst enemy. I would not eat all day for fear of gaining weight, and then, if something went well, I would reward myself with brownies. I needed the sugar to keep me going. I was eating based on my emotions and always feeling guilty. Going raw and educating myself about food helped me change this mind-set. I learned that food is fuel and what we choose affects everything: our bodies, minds, moods, job performance, and relationships—even our sex lives. As they say in Silicon Valley: garbage in, garbage out. In order to fuel myself properly I needed to eat food in its real and natural state. That meant no more garbage in—no more artificial ingredients or processed foods. You really are what you eat. We’ve all heard this phrase before, but it doesn’t always resonate. Why not? It’s so simple."

"I was at a breaking point … and my body was telling me that I needed to change. Now. I decided to “go raw” cold turkey, and after experiencing the life-altering benefits within the first week, I haven’t looked back since. Becoming a raw foodist not only saved my life, but it has also led me to discover my true passion—helping other people better understand their bodies and minds and improve their own health and quality of life. For the first time in years I was eating sufficient amounts of food and, more importantly, the right kinds. It took a few months to nourish my body back fully, but over time I began to feel vibrant again, and this reflected in every area of my life—physical, mental, professional, and emotional. I no longer had sinus infections or trouble falling asleep or waking up. My headaches were gone, along with my addiction to antacid pills. In short, my body started to heal itself and function like a well-oiled machine. From close friends to new acquaintances, people around me took notice and commented on how radiant and healthy I looked. I may have been a top model, but I had never heard these sorts of compliments before. And it felt great."

"I don’t like anything that makes fun of Asian culture or makes it look dumb. It’s such a thin line to walk and everyone draws that line someplace different. It’s such a subjective thing."