Jane Elliott Quotes

I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

Jane Elliott

• Actress
• Los Angeles
• Surgery
• Plastic

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• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Los Angeles

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• The nice thing is that, at least in Los Angeles, I'm known as a character actor and I do auditions for other things besides just cartoon shows.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Character
  • Nice
  • Los Angeles

• I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Know
  • Los Angeles
  • Los

• I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Always
  • Year
  • Actress

• I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

  Gail Devers
  • Disease
  • Illness
  • Surgery

• When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Like
  • Process
  • Actress

• I've had some surgery and shoulder problems.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Problems
  • Surgery
  • Shoulder

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Actress
  • Only

• That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Actress

• I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Art
  • Want
  • Me

• I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we kind of get together occasionally, but I wouldn't say it's an alliance or anything like that.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Together
  • Kind
  • Los Angeles

• I would fly to Los Angeles just for a cheeseburger with pickles and extra tomatoes from In-N-Out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Fly
  • Just
  • Los Angeles

• I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Actress

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Heart
  • Action
  • Figure

• Things aren't magically better if that's what you're hoping for. It's not that simple.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Simple
  • Ifs

• I tried, after I wrote 'Twilight,' to read 'The Historian,' because it was the big thing that summer. But I can't read other people's vampires. If it's too close, I get upset; if it's too far away, I get upset. It just makes me very neurotic.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Read
  • Vampires
  • Neurotic

• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  

  Colleen Saidman
  • Missing
  • Yoga
  • Nothing

• I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• I think I'm the only 65-year-old actress in Los Angeles who hasn't had plastic surgery, so somebody's gotta play the old-lady parts!

  

  Jane Elliott
  • Actress
  • Los Angeles
  • Surgery