Anjelica Huston Quotes

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

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.

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

There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.

I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.

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.

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.

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns; they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I don't think people have ever cast me for anything too traditional or midwestern or housewifey.

The idea of being given things that you don't necessarily deserve was always a difficult one for me to negotiate, and so I really always felt that I had to prove myself. Being the daughter of a famous man I guess is more easy than being the daughter of a famous woman, but at the same time there was a sense of really, with me, of wanting to earn my own way.

I think most actors like to be liked.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

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

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

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

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.

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.

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

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.

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

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.

Of course drugs were fun.