Top 52 Quotes & Sayings by Anne Heche

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Anne Heche.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Anne Heche

Anne Celeste Heche is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She came to recognition portraying Vicky Hudson and Marley Love in the soap opera Another World (1987–1991), which won her a Daytime Emmy Award and two Soap Opera Digest Awards. She came to mainstream prominence in the late 1990s with roles in the crime drama film Donnie Brasco (1997), the disaster film Volcano (1997), the slasher film I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the action comedy film Six Days, Seven Nights (1998), and the drama-thriller film Return to Paradise (1998).

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.
To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley. — © Anne Heche
I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.
The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.
We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.
I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.
For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.
I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.
I was raised to pretend.
Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.
I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused. — © Anne Heche
I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.
Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.
I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.
I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.
It's my job, to create a fantasy.
I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.
I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.
When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.
It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.
And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.
When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.
I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.
I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.
Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.
Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.
I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.
What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.
For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves
Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.
Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody. — © Anne Heche
Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.
I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder … I didn't chisel anything in stone … Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.
We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.
Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now
I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness
I searched so hard for a part that was so complex
That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.
It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.
I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me. — © Anne Heche
I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.
I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn't I just walk into an office?
I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
I've always kind of gone with my heart.
I love comedy, because I like making fun of things even though they are dramatic.
The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.
He raped me … he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me.
It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.
I do know something. Just not with any certainty.
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