Top 51 Quotes & Sayings by Daryl Hannah

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Daryl Hannah.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Daryl Hannah

Daryl Christine Hannah is an American actress and environmental activist. She made her screen debut in Brian De Palma's supernatural horror film The Fury (1978). She has starred in various movies across the years, including as Pris Stratton in Ridley Scott's science fiction thriller Blade Runner (1982) and as Cathy Featherstone in Randal Kleiser's romantic comedy Summer Lovers (1982), as the mermaid Madison in Ron Howard's fantasy-romantic comedy Splash (1984), Roxanne Kowalski in the romantic comedy Roxanne (1987), Darien Taylor in Oliver Stone's drama Wall Street (1987), and Annelle Dupuy Desoto in the comedy-drama Steel Magnolias (1989). In 2004, Hannah won a Saturn Award for her role as one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in Quentin Tarantino's two-part martial arts action film Kill Bill. In 2015, she appeared in the Netflix series Sense8 as Angelica Turing.

And then of course, obviously as far as issues such as global warming, something has to be done on the corporate side, there has to be some mandate or some legislation.
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same. — © Daryl Hannah
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
It's not necessary to go far and wide. I mean, you can really find exciting and inspiring things within your hometown.
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense.
I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.
I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.
That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.
No one really wants to send their kids off to die for oil.
My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.
I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs.
I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.
I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. — © Daryl Hannah
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Most Oscar parties are pretty silly. They're really for people who like to schmooze.
There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.
I'd like to be a giant enabler.
Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.
The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice.
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.
Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.
I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.
I really struggle with that feeling of helplessness. That's why I really try to get my blogs, and even myself, to point to the positive and look at all the inspiring things that are happening.
I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.
So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in the morning and run around the meadows naked. I think it's a good idea to live in harmony with nature.
People have to know that there are options available to us today. There is another way, and it is practical and applicable now.
That's a big goal of mine, to try and grow as much of my own food as possible
Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.
I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues. — © Daryl Hannah
I don't watch TV. I think that tends to polarize us and diminish important issues.
I felt strong around and always been around people who have very strong environmental convictions.
The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in payment and in job ratios. It's ludicrous. Are we in the modern world, or what?
I have four dogs, four horses, a cat, and a bunch of wild frogs
When you get older, you have a much better sense of when it's time to really recognize that you're fortunate and that you should appreciate your circumstances.
I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.
Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.
I love working with the best directors in the world and great material. If I get an opportunity to do that, I'm going to do it. On the other hand, if something doesn't really hold a candle, I'm going to put my efforts where I can be the most effective.
I never had come up with a really profound and strong gesture - nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I figured the best thing I could do was live by my beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing that anybody can do.
I haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game of war for oil.
Life is too short to stress the small things anymore. — © Daryl Hannah
Life is too short to stress the small things anymore.
They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.
Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same.
I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else
It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.
You have to be invited to the party. You have to be invited to work, which is weird. That can be frustrating. But gender inequality is pretty similar through almost every industry, unfortunately.
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