Top 48 Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
#3. I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
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#8. I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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#9. Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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#10. I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.
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#14. I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
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#16. I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.
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#18. I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.
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#19. Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.
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#20. I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
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#21. I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
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#22. I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
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#23. For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink ... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.
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#24. I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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#25. I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.
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#26. I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.
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#28. I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.
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#29. When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.
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#30. Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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#31. I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.
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#32. Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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#33. One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.
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#35. 'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.
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#36. People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
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#37. I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
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#38. I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
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#41. There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.
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#42. People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.
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#43. I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
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#44. I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.
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#46. I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
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#47. I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.
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