Anjelica Huston Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.

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

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've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Of course drugs were fun.

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

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

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

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.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

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.

Even though it was a tiny role, I was very proud to be a part of the comedy, which became a cult classic.

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

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.

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

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.

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

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

There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.