Jennifer Lynn Connelly Quotes

• You can’t predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave.

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• When it’s good it’s great, it’s really great.

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• We live in downtown Manhattan and we have pretty big windows that looked right at the World Trade Center. I was home along with Kai and we watched it all happen. I was holding him in my arms and we were looking out the window when the second plane hit.

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• That’s a great feeling to know that I’m going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I really trusted Ron. It’s just really nice to work with people that you feel that way about.

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• People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

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• It’s funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It’s just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

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• It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

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• If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

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• I’ve chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It’s how I like to live. I’d rather hang out with my kids and family when I’m not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out.

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• I’m so happy in the projects that I’m able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn’t always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I’m just a different person now, I’m 30. I started working when I was 11 and it’s a different ballgame.

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• I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

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• I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that’s the worst thing.

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• I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything.

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• I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I’m happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

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• I don’t know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

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• I don’t always like my own behavior. I haven’t known anyone who is perfect all the time.

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• I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

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• I didn’t expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.

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• I can’t comment on any outside perception. I’m happy to come out and talk about movies that I’ve worked on in a setting like this. Otherwise, I have my own life that I live which is very different and private.

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• Growing up, being watched from the outside… it’s kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual labor-it might be more relaxing. But I can’t, it’s not in my nature.

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Jennifer Lynn Connelly (22)

Birth:	12th December, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Model

About

Jennifer Lynn Connelly was born in Catskill Mountains, New York, USA. She is an American film actress who began her career as a child model. She appeared on the cover of several issues of Seventeen in 1986 and 1988. She has been the face of Balenciaga fashion advertisements, as well as for Revlon cosmetics. In 2012, she was named the first global face of the Shiseido Company. Her role in several films include: Once Upon a Time in America, Phenomena, Seven Minutes in Heaven, Career Opportunities, Higher Learning, Dark City, Requiem for a Dream, A Beautiful Mind (Won- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002, BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress), House of Sand and Fog, Little Children, Inkheart, Virginia, Stuck in Love, Winter's Tale, Shelter, American Pastoral, and Only the Brave (upcoming film, October-2017). Her role in television include: The Heart of Justice (TV film) and The Street (TV series). She was named Amnesty International Ambassador for Human Rights Education in 2005.

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