Elisabeth Shue Quotes

• When you get into your 40s, it’s all about lighting. It’s hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it’s all about what’s in your heart.

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• What keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You’re never just smoothly sailing along. You’re always going to be on loose footing. That’s what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn’t scare me as much.

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• Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven’t read, but over the years I’ve come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.

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• The movie I’m really excited about that I had really fun doing is ‘Feed the Dog.’ It’s with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It’s really fun. It’s raunchy, like ‘Superbad’ meets ‘Risky Business,’ kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.

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• The hard thing about ‘The Saint’ was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying – she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn’t have high expectations for that film.

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• Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

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• People love to talk about how the ’70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the ’80s, they got away with some of those too.

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• Like, that was weird in ‘Hamlet 2,’ because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, ‘Oh, I’m not playing myself. I’m some weird version of myself.’ So as an actress, you’re always playing something, I don’t even know who I am, how could I become me? I don’t know what that is.

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• It took a lot to get attention in my family. No wonder I’m an actress.

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• I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

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• I was a complete unknown when I did ‘Karate Kid.’ I’d just done a pilot for a TV show called ‘Call to Glory.’ And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would’ve been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

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• I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that’s the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

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• I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

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• I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can’t imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I’ve got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.

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• I really love ‘Soapdish.’ I wish ‘Soapdish’ had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.

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• I don’t think ‘Cocktail’ was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

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• I did ‘The Karate Kid,’ then I just went back to college. I didn’t know how much money it made and I didn’t have a publicist. I didn’t have any sense of the business part of it.

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• For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I’m not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.

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• Everyone at ‘CSI’ has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There’s a real feeling of family on that set… I’ve grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew – they’re been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.

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• Every film is a crapshoot. It’s a mystery when a movie comes together. I’ve never been able to figure it out. I don’t know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there’s something about a character that you really want to experience.

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Elisabeth Shue (35)

Birth:	6th October, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Elisabeth Judson Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware, USA. She is an American actress, known for her roles in the films The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Soapdish, Leaving Las Vegas, The Saint, and Hollow Man. She has won several acting awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. She completed her BA in political science in 2000, from Harvard.

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