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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.

Anjelica Huston

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Anjelica Huston
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: July 8
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
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Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Santa Monica
California
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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.
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I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.
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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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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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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.
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I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
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I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.
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It's certainly what I like best about getting older. You're not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it's made, it's fine, you don't have to go back and rework it. You don't have to apologize.
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Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.
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Of course drugs were fun.
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Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
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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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I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.
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I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.
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Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
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I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
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I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.
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I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
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I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.
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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.
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