Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes
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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.
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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 hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
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I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
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It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.
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I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.
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People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.
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When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
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On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
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I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
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I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
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I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.
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I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.
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I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
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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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I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.
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One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.
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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
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I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.
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There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
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Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.