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Quotes by Anjelica Huston

Before I went off to North Carolina, I was reading a lot of directors' books, among them my father's autobiography. Because there's a very good chapter about the technicalities of filmmaking in that book.
– Anjelica Huston
Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.
– Anjelica Huston
I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.
– Anjelica Huston
I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.
– Anjelica Huston
I think most actors like to be liked.
– Anjelica Huston
I was actually in my mid-30s when I got the Oscar. And yeah, it does kind of spoil you in terms of the kind of stuff you look for.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.
– Anjelica Huston
I'm not sad that I haven't had any children, because there are a lot in my family. My brother's children in their early twenties are great.
– Anjelica Huston
I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.
– Anjelica Huston
I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.
– Anjelica Huston
I've never been seasick. Carsick, but never seasick.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin-but its becoming more and more rarified.
– Anjelica Huston
Lots of women are working in the industry, and they're doing more directing with more coming up. I think it's all pretty good.
– Anjelica Huston
My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.
– Anjelica Huston
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.
– Anjelica Huston
Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.
– Anjelica Huston
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.
– Anjelica Huston
That's why actors can take on other lives, because I think basically, at the bottom of everything, they are terribly insecure people. They don't feel themselves to be bright and beautiful, or necessarily beloved. So they're always looking for it. And as long as they're looking for it, they work at their best capacity. So in that way, their insecurity feeds their talent.
– Anjelica Huston
There's always that question of what do you do first thing in the morning-hair and makeup or do you go and set up the shot. You can't be at all places at all times. So you have to try and not hold yourself hostage and be methodical about the work and hope that the weather gods will smile.
– Anjelica Huston
When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.
– Anjelica Huston
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
– Anjelica Huston