Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
Quotes to Explore
-
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
-
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
-
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
-
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
-
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
-
The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
-
Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.
-
My awkward stage extended well into high school.
-
I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
-
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
-
We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
-
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
-
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
-
I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
-
This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
-
But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
-
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
-
At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
-
What I find sad is that the New Age movement is primarily a commercial undertaking. But it is answering to a human need.
-
Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.
-
You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.
-
I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
-
Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
-
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
