Jennifer Connelly Quotes
We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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People often ask me about what constitutes a nerd-friendly show - like, does it have to have sci-fi elements? But I think it's just a show that satisfies the secret craving we all have to be obsessed with something and not feel at all stupid about it.
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When you go to church, if the pastor at some point doesn't make you laugh, he probably ain't gonna make you join.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.
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Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
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I will make action movies, I think, for a few more years, another five years.
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When I let some girl take me in her mouth I think this is what Jesus must feel like during communion.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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I rebel - therefore we exist.
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We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.
