Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Jessica Walter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Jessica Walter.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Jessica Walter was an American actress who appeared in over 170 film, stage and television productions. In film, she was best known for her role as a psychotic and obsessed fan of a local disc jockey in the 1971 Clint Eastwood film, Play Misty for Me. On television, she was most recently known for her role of Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development, and providing the voice of Malory Archer on the long-running FX animated series Archer (2009–21). Walter received various awards over the course of her television career including a Primetime Emmy Award for Amy Prentiss (1975). She also received two Golden Globe Award nominations and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations. For her starring role opposite Eastwood in Play Misty for Me, Walter received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

American - Actress | Born: January 31, 1940

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I must confess I took a couple or three jobs just for the money.

Jessica Walter

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.

Jessica Walter

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Jessica Walter

My daughter, I'm proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.

Jessica Walter

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

Jessica Walter

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not.

Jessica Walter

Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying.

Jessica Walter

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Jessica Walter

It's not that difficult to find the rage or the anger. We all have that in us, and luckily, actors and actresses get to portray it, and it's not frowned upon. Everybody has that in them. Everybody has wanted to kill somebody at one time or another. Everybody has been really, really angry about something, so if you just call on that in yourself, you find it's not that difficult.

Jessica Walter

I never had a doubt about wanting to be an actress, but certainly when there were periods of unemployment, I would think, "Oh, I'm never going to work again." The only thing I don't like about it is the business part of it - the negotiating and all this stuff that you don't learn in school. I'm not good with business.

Jessica Walter

I don't think comedy is something you learn. I think it's something that's either there or it's not. When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

Jessica Walter

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Jessica Walter

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