Anjelica Huston Quotes
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There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.
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I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
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When you're in your twenties, you're made of expectations, and when they're shattered, you don't know how to behave. The fact is if you react really outraged, you fear that you'll get dropped and feel even more terrible. But there's only a certain amount you can put up with before you become obnoxious in your own eyes, right?
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People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.
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The idea that women are actually getting some jobs - whoopee. I can't say that I celebrate it without a hint of cynicism, because I think of how easily things can drop away and go back to the same old routine of being a boys' show. But I think it's a wonderful thing that women are getting to direct more.
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Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.
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I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.
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I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.
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I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.
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You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.
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Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
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I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.
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I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
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I'm happy to do voice-overs. I always have a good time doing them. I like to explore vocal nuance and accents and different people, different personalities. In a way, it is a lot more freeing than having your face up there.
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I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte sisters, and Daphne du Maurier.
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I think it is easier to hear my voice than see myself onscreen, particularly as the years progress. Watching myself onscreen becomes less and less enthralling.
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I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.
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I was a lonely child. My brother Tony and I were never very close, neither as children nor as adults, but I was tightly bound to him. We were forced to be together because we were really quite alone. We were in the middle of the Irish countryside, in County Galway, in the West of Ireland, and we didn't see many other kids.
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I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
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I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.
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It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.
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I think women like to conquer hearts. Men like to conquer countries.