Anne Heche Quotes

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.

Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.

I was raised to pretend.

What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

I do know something. Just not with any certainty.

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.