Latest Anjelica Huston Quotes from Interviews

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• People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

  Anjelica Huston

  People, Bored, Acting

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 30, 2009.

• The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

  Anjelica Huston

  Acting, Terrible, Terrible Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

  Anjelica Huston

  Acting, Wanted

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2006.

• I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.

  Anjelica Huston

  Children, Fun, Blonde

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

  Anjelica Huston

  Book, Television, World

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

  Anjelica Huston

  Fun, Book, Reading

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

  Anjelica Huston

  Parent, Pay, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.

  Anjelica Huston

  Father, Thinking, Offering

  Source: www.pbs.org

• The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.

  Anjelica Huston

  Daughter, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

• What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

  Anjelica Huston

  Dream, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

  Anjelica Huston

  Feelings, Remember, Terrible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

  Anjelica Huston

  Past, Actors, Minutes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

  Anjelica Huston

  Book, Watches, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, Bears, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

  Anjelica Huston

  Animal, People, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

  Anjelica Huston

  Art, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

  Anjelica Huston

  Looks, Mouths, Shapes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

  Anjelica Huston

  Ideas, Feelings, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, People, Role Models

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, People, Awareness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

  Anjelica Huston

  Writing, Painting, Hardest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

  Anjelica Huston

  Drama, Acting, Wonderful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

  Anjelica Huston

  Decision, Criticism, Getting Older

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what all of your characters think at the same time. Sometimes one of my characters overrules one of my other characters. I'm trying to get them all to harmonize. It's a hell of a job. It's like driving a coach.

  Anjelica Huston

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

  Anjelica Huston

  Character, Should, Being True

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com