Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

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• I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Suicidal, Needs, Reason

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• It usually takes about two and a half weeks after you're done filming where you kind of return to yourself again.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Done, Kind, Week

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Crazy, Opportunity, Thinking

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2015.

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• You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Way, Existence, Knows

  "What you see and what you get". www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2005.

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• One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Different, Kind, Reason

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• 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.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  People, Trying, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Decision, Done, Heroin

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Lying, Thinking, People

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• Even if the role is very far away from me, to try and make it as nakedly me as possible is an intriguing notion.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Trying, Intriguing, Far Away

  Source: film.avclub.com

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

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Months, Plans

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, something dangerous would be playing thebabe in a huge studio film. That would be terrifying because I'dstink... I want to explore human beings on as deep a level as I can.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Would Be, Levels, Want

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• Even when you think you can detach yourself from the characters, you don't. Because you're spending so much time trying to realize this person and make them real that they do infect you, in a way. And you do take them home and live with them, even if you think you're turning the character off. But in order to pull off a role convincingly, you wind up thinking about that person all the time, and it does sort of creep into you. And then there are things that you'll respond to, or react to in a very different way than you would normally.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Real, Home, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Love Is, Therapy, Fulfilling

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

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Moving, Mean, Watches

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• 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.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Children, Kids, School

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I think Robert Altman could see things in me that I didn't know I possessed, which is really exciting. He also instilled a tremendous amount of confidence, because he would say things like, "These are the bare bones, but I want you to go fill it out. You find the character. You bring it to me. You write whatever you want." And if you had an idea, he wouldn't want to hear about it. He's want you to show it to him.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Cameras, Polaroids, Collections

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• I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Hate, Party, Bigs

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• Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Writing, Satisfying

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• I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Kids, Acting, Shy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2007.

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• I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Roles, Done, Levels

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• It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  People, Inspire, Exciting

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

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Play, Want, Wanted

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• When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Play, Roles, Want

  "Jennifer Jason Leigh: Fearless Leigh". Interview with Michael Fleming, movieline.com. April 1, 1999.

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• I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Change, Children, Years

  "What you see and what you get". Interview with Zoe Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2005.

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