Anjelica Huston Quotes

• Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

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• Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

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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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• My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I’m not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

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• It was great to work in Ireland because it’s such a beautiful country, but it’s not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

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• It’s still possible to find pockets of old Dublin – but its becoming more and more rarified.

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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 really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

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• I think most actors like to be liked.

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• I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I’m simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that’s a vulnerable moment in every actor’s life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

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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 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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• I do like the ocean wave, actually. I’m born under the sign of Cancer – the sign of the crab – so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such – although not the wide-open and deep seas.

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• I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I’m the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don’t believe. I am constantly between the two.

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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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• Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

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• I think all actors – they’ll hate me for saying this – but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we’ll do anything if we’re loved.

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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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• I don’t see myself ever retiring, unless it’s for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don’t see the necessity to retire from anything unless there’s a really great alternative.

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• I’ve always thought with relationships, that it’s more about what you bring to the table than what you’re going to get from it. It’s very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it’s not so good.

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Anjelica Huston (21)

Birth:	8th July, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Film Director, Model

About

Anjelica Huston was born in Santa Monica, California. She is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, when she won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She also received Academy Award nominations for Enemies, a Love Story and The Grifters. Huston received British Academy Award nominations for her work in the Woody Allen films Crimes and Misdemeanors and Manhattan Murder Mystery. Among her other roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, receiving Golden Globe nominations for both, and played the Grand High Witch in the children's movie The Witches. She is also the author of the book A Story Lately Told. Her first directorial credit was Bastard Out of Carolina, followed by Agnes Browne, in which she both directed and starred, and then Riding the Bus with My Sister. While working as a model in her teens during the late 1960s.

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