Meg Tilly Quotes

• I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

  Meg Tilly

  Waiting, Trying, Making Changes

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• If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

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  Eye, Successful, People

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• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn.

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  Friends, Character, Yarn

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

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  Dream, Book, Reading

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• Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

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  Children, Acting, Firsts

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• That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

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  Movie, Fun, Normal

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• There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

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  Morning, House, Wish

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• I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

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  Get Better, Want, Plans

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• I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

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  Children, Thinking, Important

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• I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

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  Movie, Children, Writing

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• I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

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  Fashion, Perfect, Conscious

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• It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

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  Ambition, Agents, Television

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• I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

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  Change, Children, Thinking

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• Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

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  Movie, Interesting, Emotion

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• I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.

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  Children, Important, Looks

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• I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

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  Movie, Children, Successful

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• I have nothing intelligent to say.

  Meg Tilly

  Intelligent, Explanation

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