Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
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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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'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 love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
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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'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 think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
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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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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'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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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 used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits 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 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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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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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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Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
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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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I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.
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'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.
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I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.
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People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.
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I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.