Anjelica Huston Quotes

#1. My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore ...

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#2. Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.

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#3. I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

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#4. I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

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#5. At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

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#6. I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

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#7. Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

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#8. Of course drugs were fun.

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#9. It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

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#10. An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

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#11. It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

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#12. I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

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#13. I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

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#14. I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

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#15. What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

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#16. I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

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#17. I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

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#18. I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.

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#19. I, personally, have had to rise above my feelings of inferiority to my sister Anjelica, not to mention feeling sorry for myself because I lost my mother so young.

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#20. If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

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#21. I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

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#22. I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

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#23. It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

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#24. I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

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#25. It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

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#26. People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

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#27. Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

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#28. I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

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#29. I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

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#30. Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

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#31. Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

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#32. Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

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#33. I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

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#34. Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

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#35. One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

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#36. I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

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#37. I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

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#38. Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.

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#39. Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

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#40. The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

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#41. I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

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#42. I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey,

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#43. Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

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#44. I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

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#45. I think most actors like to be liked.

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#46. I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

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#47. Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.

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#48. What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

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#49. I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

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#50. I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

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#51. My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

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