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I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

Julie Delpy

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Julie Delpy
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 21
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I've had this opportunity to get some of my financing out of Europe, which has helped tremendously, so I'm not completely dependent on the studio system or on U.S. financing.
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I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.
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Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.
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My therapist in Paris once told me that being creative is a better form of therapy for me than sitting on his couch.
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The condition of being an actress can be unbearable.
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I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.
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I find most films about fashion terrible because they are caricaturish.
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Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world.
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Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women. (...) I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.
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Never take no for an answer. It took me 20 years between the time I wrote my first screenplay and the time I actually got money to direct a movie.
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People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?
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You're never totally sure. I shouldn't say that because you have to pretend you're completely self-secure all the time. But, the truth is, I know what I'm doing. I think I know what I'm doing.
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I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents never did drugs or anything. They just believed in freedom in the best sense of the word.
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I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me.
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I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.
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Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.
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I love the acting process. What I don't like is what's around it. The auditions and being rejected every other day. The look thing. That you have to lose weight, that you have to do Botox.
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I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.
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The people that are succeeding have often had a mentor of some kind. I think it makes a huge difference.
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I hate that whole Tarantino thing about beating up women and killing them and chopping up. Just because you have the mind of a 12 year old.
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