Jennifer Tilly Quotes

#1. I love doing lesbian love scenes. Before I did my lesbian scenes in Gia, I talked to actresses who said love scenes are easier with another woman than a man. Bound's Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly said they'd lie there and discuss the sale at Barney's between takes.

Angelina Jolie

#2. I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

April Bowlby

#3. I met my boyfriend, a pro poker player, at a tournament. He tried to dissuade me because it's a seedy gritty world. Listen, I've played till 4 in the morning. I've played with a half million dollars on the table.

Jennifer Tilly

#4. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

C.S. Lewis

#5. Chains
chains that hold me to the ground
chains that keep me solidly bound
chains that tether my heart to you
chains that only one truth ...

Muse

#6. I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

Jennifer Tilly

#7. I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe

Hillary Clinton

#8. I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, 'Okay, I'm white trash.'

Jennifer Tilly

#9. Everybody knows that love goes away.

Jennifer Tilly

#10. I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

Jennifer Tilly

#11. I trust myself to deal with any problems that arise during the day

Louise Hay

#12. You must make your own blunders, must cheerfully accept your own mistakes as part of the scheme of things.

Minnie Maddern Fiske

#13. Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

Jennifer Tilly

#14. Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

Jennifer Tilly

#15. I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Jennifer Tilly

#16. Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

Jennifer Tilly

#17. I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

Jennifer Tilly

#18. Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

Jennifer Tilly

#19. I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

Jennifer Tilly

#20. My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

Jennifer Tilly

#21. No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.

Thomas C. Oden

#22. Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over the strong. The self-hatred inherent in the weak unlocks energies far more formidable then those mobilized by an ordinary struggle for existence.

Eric Hoffer

#23. I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made Jim Morrison look too sleazy, if you can imagine. I saw the movie-it was so loud I had a headache for three days.

Jennifer Tilly

#24. A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

Jennifer Tilly

#25. If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

Jennifer Tilly

#26. If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

Jennifer Tilly

#27. I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

Scarlett Johansson

#28. I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

Jennifer Tilly

#29. A fence to wisdom is silence.

Rabbi Akiva

#30. Queers can't destroy science fiction. No one can. No one can destroy the future. But we can, through malice or complacency or inattention, limit the future.

Sigrid Ellis

#31. That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Jennifer Tilly