Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
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'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.
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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.
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I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.
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I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
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I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
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I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
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I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.
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My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.
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I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!
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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.
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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.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
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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.
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I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.
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I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
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I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.
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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.
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I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
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I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.
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Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
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My mother always helped me because she was kind of a research fanatic. When she would write a screenplay, there would be so much research all over the walls. And so when I started working as an actress, I would do the same thing. She instilled in me a love of taking everything very seriously. It didn't matter what it was.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.