Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.

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

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

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

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

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

I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.

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

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

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

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I'm a fraidy cat. I play everything very safe in my life, so I think that's why I like characters that don't.

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

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

I sort of spend every moment that I'm not working doing things with my son. You do the best you can, and you make the most of the time you have.

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

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

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.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

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

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.

I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.

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

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

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