Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Lili Taylor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lili Taylor.

Last updated on November 18, 2024.

Lili Anne Taylor is an American actress. She came to prominence with supporting parts in the films Mystic Pizza (1988) and Say Anything... (1989), before establishing herself as one of the key figures of 1990s independent cinema with starring roles in Bright Angel (1990), Dogfight (1991), Household Saints, Short Cuts, The Addiction, Cold Fever, I Shot Andy Warhol, Girls Town, Pecker (1998), and A Slipping-Down Life (1999). She is the recipient of four Independent Spirit nominations, winning once in the category of Best Supporting Female. Her accolades also include a Golden Globe, an NBR Award, a Volpi Cup, a Sant Jordi, a Golden Space Needle, a Chlotrudis Award, an SDFCS Award, a Sundance Special Jury Prize, and a Fangoria Chainsaw Award.

American - Actress | Born: February 20, 1967

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I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.

Lili Taylor

It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

Lili Taylor

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

Lili Taylor

I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.

Lili Taylor

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

Lili Taylor

I like to play smart, three-dimensional women. I also like to play roles where the women are a little crazy. I just have a feel for crazy people.

Lili Taylor

When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.

Lili Taylor

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that's bigger than me.

Lili Taylor

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.

Lili Taylor

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

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As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

Lili Taylor

To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.

Lili Taylor

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

Lili Taylor

I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.

Lili Taylor

There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.

Lili Taylor

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

Lili Taylor

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

Lili Taylor

It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

Lili Taylor

We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.

Lili Taylor

The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy

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Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.

Lili Taylor

I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.

Lili Taylor

Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob.

Lili Taylor