Lili Taylor Quotes

#1. I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

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#2. We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

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#3. The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

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#4. You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

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#5. It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

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#6. It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

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#7. I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

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#8. I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

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#9. As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

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#10. Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

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#11. Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

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#12. The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

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#13. If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

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#14. When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

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#15. I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

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#16. Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

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#17. I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.

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#18. There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

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#19. I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.

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#20. I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

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#21. I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

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#22. To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.

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