Susan Downey Quotes

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

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• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Comedy
  • Serious
  • Actress

• I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Music
  • Like
  • Artists

• I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Films
  • Cry
  • Even

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Care
  • Films
  • Defend

• You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
  • Films
  • Dancing

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• I love doing kids' films.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kids
  • Doing
  • Films

• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Done
  • Films
  • Lot

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Like
  • Process
  • Actress

• I have no interest in directing. I've no talent for it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Interest
  • Talent
  • Directing

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Family
  • Films
  • Watch

• In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Me
  • Body
  • Films

• The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Think
  • Actress
  • Only

• I have died in enough TV and films.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Enough
  • Films
  • TV

• When I stepped out from doing films and had a dark period, I never did anything dark on a set, so I never made enemies on a set. I never was a bad girl on a set; I always considered films a really sacred space, so when I had my problems, I had them very much away from the film community.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Bad
  • Girl
  • Community

• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Man
  • Better
  • More

• All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. "Long after we are gone, our words will be all that is left, and who is to say what really happened or even what reality is? Our stories, our fiction, our words will be as close to truth as can be. And no one can take that away from you.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Reality
  • Stories
  • Talking

• If you don't have the background awareness of oneness, duality becomes real.

  

  Alan Finger
  • Oneness
  • Duality

• I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

  

  Susan Downey
  • Interest
  • Films
  • Actress