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Jennifer Jason Leigh [1962-0] American

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Actress

Jennifer Jason Leigh is an American actress, writer, producer and director. Leigh began her career as a teenager in the 1970s, guest-starring on several television shows.

Age, Anniversary, Fear, Marriage

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Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.		101
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.		102
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.	Age, Fear	103
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.		104
I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.		105
I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.	Marriage	106
I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.		107
It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.		108
I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.		109
You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.		110
People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.		111
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.		112
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.		113
I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.		114
I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.		115
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.		116
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.		117
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.		118
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.		119
I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.		120
Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.		121
I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.		122
I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.		123
When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.		124
I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.		125
I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.		126
I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.		201
On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.		202
I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.		203
I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.		204
I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.		205
I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.		206
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?		207
I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.		208
I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.		209
I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.		210
When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.		211
'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.		212
'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.	Anniversary	213
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.		214
My mother always helped me because she was kind of a research fanatic. When she would write a screenplay, there would be so much research all over the walls. And so when I started working as an actress, I would do the same thing. She instilled in me a love of taking everything very seriously. It didn't matter what it was.		215
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?		216
I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.		217
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.		218
Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.		219
My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.		220
There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.		221
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.		222
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.		223
I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!		224
I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.		225

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