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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
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Santa Monica
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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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Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.
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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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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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I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
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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.
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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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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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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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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.
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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 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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The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.
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