Top 24 Quotes & Sayings by Lili Taylor

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lili Taylor.
Last updated on December 19, 2024.
Lili Taylor

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.

I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.
Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility. — © Lili Taylor
Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.
To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense.
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
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.
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.'
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.
It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy — © Lili Taylor
The world is full of guys. Be a man. Don't be a guy
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.
I haven't gotten stuck with something because I just keep going, and I keep doing different things.
Doors of opportunity don't open, they unlock; it is up to you to turn the knob.
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.
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