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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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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?
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh -
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.
Jennifer Jason Leigh