Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Anjelica Huston - Page 2

Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

Of course drugs were fun.

If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don't look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.

It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.

My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can't live out. That's one of the wonderful things about acting.

I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey.

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns; they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.