Quotes by Donna Mills

Donna Mills

Be sure that the reason you are in the business is not to be a star, but because you love the craft of acting. If you have a real passion for it and acting is what you want to do every day, you are much more likely to be successful. If being a star is your primary goal, you may end up being very disappointed.

Passion

Real

Stars

Early on in my career, I’d go into the makeup trailer, and they’d spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I’d go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

Careers

Hate

Makeup

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

Color

Dark

Seductive

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

Dancer

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Grain

Hate

Hats

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn’t do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

Gears

Lenses

Mind

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

High Heels

Shows

Tall

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

Cameras

Feels

Fronts

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn’t lost.

Femininity

Important

Lost

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don’t say things in life – they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing – which was redundant.

Character

Cutting

Things In Life

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Arthritis

Cameras

Careers

Catholic

Character

Children

Color

Country

Cutting

Dancer

Dark

Daughter

Drama

Father

Feels

Femininity

Foxes

Fronts

Gears

Grain

Hate

Hats

High Heels

I'm Back

Important

Knots

Lenses

Littles

Lost

Loving Life

Makeup

Messages

Mind

Mother

Moving

My Family

My Favorite

Oil

Passion

Real

Reality

Religious

Roles

Seductive

Shoes

Shows

Stars

Tall

Teacher

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Quotes by Donna Mills

Donna Mills

Early on in my career, I’d go into the makeup trailer, and they’d spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I’d go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself.

Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.

I also loved musicals because I was a dancer.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn’t do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn’t lost.

I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don’t say things in life – they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing – which was redundant.

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