Illeana Douglas Quotes

#1. In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

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#2. I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

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#3. I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

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#4. When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

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#5. I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

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#6. The fact that both ego and self say "I" is a source of confusion and misidentification. The well-informed ego says truly, "I am what I know myself to be." The self says merely, "I am.

Stephen LaBerge

#7. I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

Tinie Tempah

#8. I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

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#9. I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

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#10. It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

Nancy Reagan

#11. The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

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#12. I know in this day and age, when you meet men, they often want to be boys. They dress like boys. And it's very confusing. I can't offer any solution except to make a movie about it.

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#13. I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

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#14. The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

William Cranch Bond

#15. I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

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#16. When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

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#17. God only knows what else is on the web about me.

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#18. Women don't want to be listened to. They only want to be agreed with

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#19. I was lucky that I met the right mentors and teachers at the right moment.

James Levine

#20. God, the floor is cold! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts! I just thought "God." I don't use that word. Do I believe? Have I found faith here, on my knees, now, at the end? That seems kind of hypocritical-like to me. Ain't dying a hypocrite.

Karen Marie Moning

#21. Nobody ever lends money to a man with a sense of humor.

Peter Tork

#22. Flowers, for instance, because where would we be without them?

Margaret Atwood

#23. The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.

William Dean Howells

#24. I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

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#25. I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

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#26. There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

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#27. I'm a huge poster collector.

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#28. I always say that I only wish to have three sorts of people as my friends, those who are very rich, those who are very witty, and those who are very beautiful.

Christopher Isherwood

#29. I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

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#30. Kindness is the language of love.

Debasish Mridha

#31. I come from a pretty strange family.

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#32. I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

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#33. It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

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#34. It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

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#35. I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

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#36. We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

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#37. I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

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#38. I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

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