Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

• If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

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• I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry… just make me feel alive.

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• I am one of the few actresses who isn’t recognized by the way she looks. I’m recognized by the way I talk.

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• A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

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• The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.

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• I don’t think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn’t enough for me.

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• No one was jumping up and saying, ‘Yeah, let me give you money.’ I had never held a camera in my hand – a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.

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• It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It’s just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.

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• For women in their 30s, it’s so hard to get good parts.

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• It’s not like you can wake up and realize, ‘Oh, I want intimacy,’ and then it happens that day.

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• My life isn’t that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can’t talk on the phone. He’s too crippled and shy, and that’s almost harder. He’s there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it’s just impossible to have a relationship.

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• I was never one of those people who thought, ‘What I really want to do is direct.’ It never occurred to me.

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• ‘Chasing Amy’ was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did ‘Big Daddy’ and you’re the girlfriend or you’re the best friend. I wasn’t getting the Nicole Kidman roles.

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• I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn’t satisfying me 100%.

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• I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

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• Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.

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• A bonus: You don’t have to diet to direct.

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• There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.

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• My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.

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Joey Lauren Adams (19)

Birth:	9th January, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Director

About

Joey Lauren Adams was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. She is an American actress and film director. Her role in several films include: Coneheads, The Program, Sleep with Me, Mallrats, Drawing Flies, Chasing Amy (Nominated- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress- Motion Picture Musical or Comedy), Big Daddy, Beautiful, Harvard Man, Beeper, The Big Empty, The Break-Up, Trucker, Endure, Art Machine, Blue Caprice, Sequoia, and Animal. Her role in television include: Top of the Heap (sitcom), Vinnie & Bobby (sitcom), Second Noah (TV drama), Tough Trade (TV film), United States of Tara (TV comedy-drama), and Still the King (TV series). In 2006, she released her directorial debut film, Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Donovan, Diane Ladd, Tim Blake Nelson and Laura Prepon.

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