Jennifer Tilly Quotes
Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I was a tomboy.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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I have never spoken for anyone but myself.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.
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I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.
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I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.
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I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
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In my reporting, I've found that real change escapes many change-makers because powerful illusions guide their projects.
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I remember being really shocked after Mellow Gold came out and going on tour, and all these kids were there. It totally disturbed me. Who are all these young people? I'd been playing Mississippi John Hurt covers in coffee shops to a bunch of thirty-, forty-, fifty-year olds. Then all of a sudden there were these teenagers.
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Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!
