Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Julia Fox - Page 2

In my pre-quarantine life, I would watch maybe, like, TV here and there, but I would never really fully commit to an entire movie because I can't really sit still for that long.

I think I just have naturally oily skin.

I'm so many different things in one. I'm like, really, truly a New Yorker.

Usually, on sets, they'll have multiples of the same outfit, in case it gets damaged or in case it gets dirty and starts to smell weird.

I actually love not being around people.

I can't sit around and be bitter all the time. I have to go out and create my own little world, one that won't change when I'm not ready for it to.

I love to write, to create my own characters and make them do whatever I want.

My dad always told me that I should have been an actress, but that wasn't really my main focus. I really love to be the director, the person in charge, making my fantasy come to life. But if I love someone else's fantasy, I'll definitely help them bring theirs to life, too.

I like to be as outrageous as possible. I really like to push the boundaries and then I'll have a whole team of people saying like, 'Absolutely not, you cannot wear that.'

I do feel even though now I'm acting, I still feel like I'm going to do a lot of other things, like write a book or multiple books, maybe a children's book - just random things that I feel like I want to do, that I have an urge to do in that moment.

I'm a collector of experiences and also very impulsive; I get an impulse to do something and my intuition of telling me to do something or if I get this idea and I think it's brilliant, I just have to do it.

I want to explore myself in every facet.

I grew up with my dad. He was very eccentric. I had zero supervision in New York. It's kind of like I was an orphan.

Staten Island is like a different world. If you're from Staten Island, you're like not from New York, you're from Staten Island.

I've always kind of been an outcast.

I mean, life is kind of like your own movie. You collect your characters to play your friends or acquaintances, your lovers. You're the casting director of your own life.

I don't ever want to limit myself based on what other people have told me I am.

I'm always a big-picture kind of gal. I always think in the long term, and I like to see things through from beginning to end in my head.

I would just go wherever the wind blew, and I would always get myself into crazy situations. By some miracle, I'm still alive.

I pick up subtle cues very well and pay attention to detail.

I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I would get to one day.

New York used to be a place where, if you were different, you were celebrated.

I want to create a TV show, I want to direct, I want to produce.

If I have a free day, sometimes I'm just reading scripts all day. They pile up.

I worked at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. That's where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything.