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

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Anjelica Huston
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 8
Actor
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Film Actor
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Film Producer
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Television Actor
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I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.
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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.
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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.
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I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.
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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.
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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.
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Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
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I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
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Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
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My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.
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My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
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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.
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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.
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I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.
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Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.
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Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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