Lili Taylor Quotes

#1. I understand some of the people's impatience with the show last year. I think that Lisa's (Lili Taylor) story line (marrying Nate with minimal motivation in season three) became a little bit of a diversion - and that happens. It happens in every show.

Chris Albrecht

#2. The musician lifestyle is not easy for most people to understand. This is something I'm struggling with. When you're on tour, people think you're just having the time of your life and it's really romantic.

Sharon Van Etten

#3. 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.

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

#6. Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.

H.A. Kotys

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

Lili Taylor

#8. 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.

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

#10. 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?

Lili Taylor

#11. 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.

Lili Taylor

#12. 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.

Lili Taylor

#13. I take a deep breath,
count to ten,
and bury it,
way down deep

Sarah Ockler

#14. Can a girl find true love if she doesn't believe it exists?

Heather Hepler

#15. She dumb." I sigh. "But she ain't stupid.

Kathryn Stockett

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

Lili Taylor

#17. For you to find a needle in-God, not even in a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.'
'Plunge your hand into a tower of needles,' said Magnus, 'and you are likely to cut yourself badly.

Cassandra Clare

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

Lili Taylor

#19. 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.

Lili Taylor

#20. Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher,' said Harry loudly, 'there was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head.' This

J.K. Rowling

#21. In every moment, you make decisions based on your beliefs or inspiration which comes to you directly from the divine/universe.

Hina Hashmi

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

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

#24. Only an elaborate treatise in ecology could do justice to the subject of what went wrong,

James C. Scott

#25. 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.'

Lili Taylor

#26. 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.

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

#29. 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.

Lili Taylor

#30. 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.

Lili Taylor

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

Lili Taylor

#32. 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.

Lili Taylor