Jane Seymour Quotes

• When I’m in the U.K. I can’t resist Maltesers and Twiglets – the evil combination. Luckily, I live in the U.S. so can’t get them easily, which is probably a good thing.

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• When I was younger, I remember thinking, ‘I have to pass this mark’ or ‘I have to get this role’ or ‘I have to do this or that’ and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

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• When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when life is tough your instinct is to close your heart. But if you can accept what happened and reach out to someone, there will always be someone less fortunate, or someone that can bring a solution and help your life.

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• When I started painting 17 years ago, I never imagined that anyone would look at my work or buy my pieces. But now I do about 14 exhibitions each year.

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• When I auditioned for ‘Wedding Crashers,’ the producers had never seen any of my other work except for Bond. I got ‘Wedding Crashers’ partly because I was a Bond girl.

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• What I know now is that we’re all interconnected and that’s a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can’t judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

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• People always think that because of ‘Dr. Quinn’ that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that ‘East of Eden’ was a very successful thing for me in the past. I’ve played a lot of very evil people in my time.

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• No, I chose the name Jane Seymour because I was doing my first film, ‘Ode to Lovely War,’ and one of the top agents in England spotted me dancing in the chorus. I was a singer and dancer in that movie with Maggie Smith, um, and he told me he couldn’t sell me as Joyce Penelope Willomena Frankenburger.

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• Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don’t even hear the music. I don’t even hear the notes. I’m not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine – I’m in another world.

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• It’s interesting that whenever I meet some of the other Bond girls, I always have something in common, and it is an interesting sorority. We all share about our Bonds. ‘Did your Bond do that?’ ‘Yes mine did!’ So it is quite funny conversations. We may as well be in high school.

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• It’s interesting because a lot of my 16-year-old kids’ friends know me from ‘Wedding Crashers,’ and not so much Bond. My kids have a good laugh. I was 20 then. The look I had then was the look that a lot of their friends are assuming now. They think it’s cool. What goes around comes around.

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• If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it’s their choice.

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• I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn’t completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart – when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.

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• I spend as much time as I possibly can doing things for other people, if I can. If I see a need and I feel that I can help, I do it. I work a great deal in terms of charities and things.

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• I really love the independent movies and I just think that sometimes when they throw a lot of money into it and a lot of special effects and a lot of stunts that you lose the connection, the human connection and I personally love movies that are about the human connection.

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• I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

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• I just did a film in which I had to be a dancer and I was able to do all kinds of extraordinary things. A lot of people turn 50 and talk about what they’re not going to do anymore. I embarked on something that I’d wanted to do when I was 5.

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• I had ordered long legs, but they never arrived. My eyes are weird too, one is gray and the other is green. I have a crooked smile and my nose looks like a ski slope. No, I would not win a Miss contest.

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• I don’t waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don’t understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

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• I don’t let the children watch TV on weeknights. They practice playing musical instruments instead. Both my sons play piano, drums and guitar, so my husband and I listen to them in the evening.

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Jane Seymour (54)

Birth:	15th February, 1951
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Jane Seymour was born in Hayes, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England. She is a British-born American actress. Her role in several films include: The Only Way, Live and Let Die, Somewhere in Time, Lassiter, Wedding Crashers, Blind Dating, After Sex, Freeloaders, The Family Tree, Love, Wedding, Marriage, Austenland, and High Strung. Her role in television include: Seventh Avenue(miniseries), The Sun Also Rises(TV movie), East of Eden(Won- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress- Miniseries or Television Film), The Woman He Loved(TV movie, Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress- Miniseries or Television Film), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World(TV movie, Won- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie), War and Remembrance(TV series, Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress- Miniseries or Television Film), Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman(TV series, Won- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress- Television Series Drama, Nominated- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Nominated- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding), Modern Men(TV series), Lovestruck(TV movie), A Royal Christmas(TV movie).

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