150 Most Beautiful Actresses Of All Time

"Co-starring with Greta Garbo hardly constituted an introduction." -Fredric March

"Apart from her looks, which were magical, she possessed beautiful poise; her neck looked almost too fragile to support her head and bore with it a sense of surprise, and something of the pride of the master juggler who can make a brilliant maneuver appear almost accidental. She also had something else: an attraction of the most perturbing nature I had ever encountered." -Laurence Olivier

"I know I should say something about Hedy’s beauty. I, like anyone gradually getting to know Hedy, was in for a surprise. There is no doubt at all that Hedy is unreasonably lovely. Black and white photography doesn’t do her justice; color almost catches her spectacular vividness. In daily life, she appears to be utterly unaware of her own looks." -John Hodiak

“Carole had a quality which is rare. You can count the women who have had it on the fingers of one hand. Carole, while doing the wild antics of a clown…could make you laugh, and yet at the same time make you want to go to bed with her.”- Desi Arnaz

"She was a great broad, in all the meaning of the word." -Charlton Heston (following Stanwyck's death)

"We all say she made as good a princess as she did a movie actress, even better." -James Stewart

"Although she was beautiful in her films, they couldn't quite capture all of her. Fortunately, I did, even if it was late in my life." -Spencer Tracy

"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out." -Richard Burton

"When Natalie died, I was embittered. I still get angry about it and I wonder why it had to happen. I have all those feelings of grief and anger that people who've lost someone they love always have. I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart." -Robert Wagner

"I love her, and God damn me for it." -Frank Sinatra

"The best, my favorite . . . Life would be kind if I could live it with Deborah around." -Robert Mitchum

"Statistics tell us that Audrey died young. What no statistics can show is that Audrey would have died young at any age." -Peter Ustinov, 1995

"I didn't do anything I've never done before, but when the camera moves in on that Bergman face, and she's saying she loves you, it would make anybody feel romantic." -Humphrey Bogart

"When you dance with her you stay danced." -Fred Astaire

"Her soul, she's got a beautiful soul. Strikes you right away. Beauty. Sheer overwhelming beauty." - James Dean

"Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso." -Clark Gable

"Eleanor Parker was and is one of the most beautiful ladies I have ever known. Both as a person and as a beauty. I was sure she was enchanted and would live forever." " -Christopher Plummer (co-star, The Sound of Music)

"Why would I go out for a hamburger when I have steak at home? - Paul Newman (on wife Woodward)

"One of the dearest and sweetest women that ever lived...I was lucky enough to have been with her longer than any of the other men in her life." -Orson Welles

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"She's one of the little people, like Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Freddie Bartholomew when he started, who take hold of an audience immediately. She's nothing much in real life — a quiet, rather timid little thing. But the screen transforms her, electrifies her and brings her to life." -Preston Sturges

"There's only one woman who has been my friend over the years and by that I mean a real friend, like a man would be. That woman is Maureen O'Hara. She's big, lusty, and absolutely marvelous definitely my kind of woman. She's a great guy. I've had many friends and I prefer the company of men. Except for Maureen O'Hara." -John Wayne

"'Betty Bacall was the perfect mate for Bogey—beautiful, fair, warm, talented and highly intelligent. She gave as good as she got in the strong personality department. Women and men love her with equal devotion." -David Niven