Anjelica Huston Quotes

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas.

I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.

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.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

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 think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.

It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

Of course drugs were fun.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little 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.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

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.

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

I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

I think most actors like to be liked.

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.

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

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

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

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