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“As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories”
“As an actress I really like exploring and doing new experiences.”
“As an actress I take roles I find interesting.”
“As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.”
“As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.”
“As an actress you're perpetually about to be unemployed. That fear - when you have two parents who worked 9-to-5 jobs and went through periods of being unemployed - is real. Those were not welcome times in my childhood. Working 14 hours a day isn't sustainable, but I prefer it to doing fewer films. I might as well be doing the thing that I wanted to do my whole life.”
“As an actress, and as a person, I really admire Diane Keaton. She's feisty, strong, beautiful and talented, and intelligent.”
“As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.”
“As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.”
“As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!”
“As an actress, I think I really understand that stage where you think you are picking reality in order to feed the fiction, but it happens to be the contrary. It's the fiction that suddenly feeds your reality. And you don't know how it has been done. That's the kind of magical transposition that is art.”
“As an actress, I think it’s important to look back and realize that we aren’t always quite as original as we think we are. There’s this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.”
“As an actress, I think there is always a political consciousness there.”
“As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.”
“As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.”
Source: Self-portrait
“As an actress, I'm an emotional person.”
“As an actress, I'm drawn to emotion and expressing the human condition in all its forms, and I'm fortunate to have thoughts and feelings at my fingertips.”
“As an actress, I'm supposed to create something from head to toes, with clues, with lines, with shapes, and even with that power, I felt lost and not in control.”
“As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.”
“As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.”
“As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.”
“As an actress, there's a lot of waiting. You wait for a script to come in that you want to do. You get to a point where you decide that if you want good things to be made, you're going to have to start making them yourself as an actress. You can't just wait around for it. But you can also just enjoy the breaks, and use them to kind of refuel. I've been working so long at this point that I don't mind the breaks. I think they make me better, actually.”
“As an actress, there's nothing worse than not knowing your cues.”
“As an actress, you get to basically be your character.”
“As an actress, you go where the stories are. I don't really care where it's seen, at this point. I just want to tell good stories and do good roles that I haven't done before.”
“As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.”
“As an actress, you want to try new things. You don't want to repeat yourself. That becomes more important to you, as you get older.”
“As an actress, you're already disregarded for a lot of the parts by the people who are setting up those shows. You don't need your agent to be doing the same.”
“As an administrator, I always hired people whose experience greatly surpassed mine, especially in areas that necessitated more knowledge than I possessed.”
“As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.”
Source: The complete war memoirs of Charles de Gaulle
“As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.”
“As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.”
“As an adolescent, Spider-Man was what got me through tough times in terms of being a skinny kid.”
“As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.”
“As an adoptive parent myself of foster children, I have seen firsthand the glaring problems of the system currently facing this Nation.”
“As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.”
“As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live.”
Source: The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“As an adult, emerging from the ether's of an abusive childhood, i found myself left with a constant craving for protection, safety and security. I spent many years living my life, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I needed to control everything, in an effort to prevent any harm from coming my way (even though control is an illusion).
It took me many years to realize i had to become that safe harbor for myself. And that part of becoming that safe harbor was not about avoiding life, but rather, developing the confidence and coping skills to know that i would have what it takes to find my way through life's inevitable trials and tribulations.”
“As an adult I discovered that I was a pretty good autodidact, and can teach myself all kind of things. And developed a great interest in a number of different things from how to build a street hot rod from the ground up to quantum mechanics, and those two different kinds of mechanics, and it was really in the sciences, quantum mechanics, molecular biology, I would begin looking at these things looking for ideas, but in fact you don't read it for ideas you read it for curiosity and interest in the subject.”
“As an adult I generally feel this pressure to be thin, not from men, but from other women. As a silent or not-so-silent competition, a constant monitoring of who's thinner, comments about it - either compliments or veiled insults doesn't matter - it always drives me nuts.”
“As an adult I will not stand by and let others-- --those you have arbitrarily decided are somehow 'unworthy,' 'undeserving' -- -- suffer as I have suffered before them!”
Source: Uncanny X-Men (1963-2011) #304
“As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."”
“As an adult, it shatters me that the child parts of my mind froze at those ages, didn't develop, and continued to believe the outrageous deceptions the abusers used on me.”
Source: White Witch in a Black Robe: A True Story About Criminal Mind Control
“As an adult, most of my friends are women . . . they, too, had that moment when they realized they were all the “other girls,” and that every girl in the world is, too.”
Source: Where Am I Now?
“As an adult, when you're with your siblings, part of you is always a child, attached to childhood patterns of behavior and associations. All the jokes and gestures, affections and resentments.”
Source: The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading
“As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.”
“As an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. I mean, I like a good thrill. Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump. But what I don't like is the gore. I don't like gratuitous violence and killing and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of an interesting paradox.”
“As an adult, I think I wanna be living in New York City and help a lot of homeless people and try to become vegan and maybe be a band with some good friends and be making a living and be happy with how much money I have.”
“As an adult, I'm not supposed to go down slides. So if I'm at the top of a slide, I have to pretend that I got there accidentally. "How the hell did I get up here? I guess I have to slide down. Whee!" That's what you say when you're having fun. You refer to yourself and some other people.”
“As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.”