Jennifer Tilly Quotes

• Play my own game. You can read all the books, but you have to listen to your intuition and not do everything exactly as they say. You have to do what feels right.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Book, Games, Play

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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 L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"

  Jennifer Tilly

  Want, Ifs, Sells

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everybody knows that love goes away.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Knows

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• If you have Julia Roberts in a movie youre never really afraid for her because you know shes not going to die.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Knows, Dies, Julia

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• If I was like some of the characters I played, I'd probably be dead by now.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Character, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows - faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Mean, Artist, Makeup

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Writing, Problem, Hills

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• Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Cutting, Cupcakes, Practice

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• I'm not apologizing for what I did. I'm apologizing for what I didn't do.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Apologizing

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• I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Who I Am, Film, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Kissing, Hug, Hollywood

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• I would rather be loved by somebody who respected me.

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• My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Girl, Mother, Book

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• I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, Oh please, get a room.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Tears, Screw Ups, Rooms

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• I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don't know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, Okay, I'm white trash.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Phones, White, Numbers

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• I was cut out of The Doors. I was Okie Girl, a groupie. The powers that be thought that my character made Jim Morrison look too sleazy, if you can imagine. I saw the movie-it was so loud I had a headache for three days.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Girl, Character, Cutting

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• I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Beach, Blow, Thinking

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• Felting Phil (taking all of his chips down to the felt on the table). I loved beating him and then hed go over to the couch and sulk, staring at the ceiling.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Ceilings, Tables, Chips

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