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'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.
Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.
It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.
I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.
I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!
I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.
I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.
It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.
I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.
In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.
I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.
For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.
I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.
'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.
I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.
There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.
Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.
I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.
I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.