Quotes by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

Children

Kids

School

I don’t really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don’t.

Mean

Moving

Watches

I don’t want to play the same person twice, that’s not why I wanted to act.

Play

Want

Wanted

I feel like I turned down a lot of things that I wish I hadn’t. But you never know when you’re younger. I don’t have regrets about certain things I turned down. Those films would have required things of me that would have been challenging, and they ended up being really good movies. But I was never a careerist, I never thought in those terms. I’d be like, “Oh, I’m tired. I don’t want to work.”

Being Real

Regret

Tired

I hate parties. I don’t like big crowded things.

Bigs

Hate

Party

I hope my talent has something to do with it. I just think this business is so crazy. I obviously do the best I can, and the directors I admire see something in me. But this is a strange business, and there are people who are incredibly talented who never make it, who never get these opportunities. So that’s why I say I’m lucky. I don’t feel that I’m not talented – I think I am talented – but I also think I’m very lucky.

Crazy

Opportunity

Thinking

I just don’t plan things. I live a month at a time.

Months

Plans

I just don’t want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it’s mine, I’m not trying to promote it. It’s nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don’t have to use to sell a movie.

Nice

Trying

Use

I like as much time as I can get and I’ll do whatever I think is helpful to prepare for a role. Sometimes it’s practical research, meaning if I had to write shorthand, I’d learn how to write shorthand. Or if I have to know how to dance a certain way, I would learn that. And then there’s just research of talking to people similar to the characters I’m playing. And there’s stuff that I just feel is inspiring, whether it be music or a painting or a photograph. I’ve used a lot of Nan Goldin’s photos in the past to inspire me. I use certain paintings and pieces of music.

Character

Past

Writing

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person’s experience.

Different

People

Trying

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Acting

Being Real

Bigs

Block

Brilliant

Cameras

Change

Character

Children

Collections

Crazy

Decision

Different

Directors

Doe

Done

Exciting

Fall

Fulfilling

Fun

Giving

Hate

Heart

Heroin

Inspire

Kids

Kind

Love Is

Lucky

Lying

Mean

Months

Moving

Nice

Opportunity

Party

Past

People

Plans

Play

Polaroids

Reality

Reason

Regret

Roles

School

Shy

Strong

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Thinking

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Quotes by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

I don’t really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don’t.

I don’t want to play the same person twice, that’s not why I wanted to act.

I hate parties. I don’t like big crowded things.

I just don’t plan things. I live a month at a time.

I just don’t want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it’s mine, I’m not trying to promote it. It’s nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don’t have to use to sell a movie.

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person’s experience.

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