Joey Lauren Adams Quotes
'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.
It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.
The toughest thing about homework is getting mom and pop to agree on the same answer.
No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.
There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.
I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.
I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.
It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.
I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk
