Quotes from 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.

I'm happy to do voice-overs. I always have a good time doing them. I like to explore vocal nuance and accents and different people, different personalities. In a way, it is a lot more freeing than having your face up there.

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.

You have to have patience and confidence that your things will let you know where they need to go. Particularly artwork. Paintings will tell you where they want to be.

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.

Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

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.

I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.

I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.

It's still possible to find pockets of old Dublin - but its becoming more and more rarified.

There's a moment in one's life when you should really be de-accessorizing instead of making more collections.

Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.

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.

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

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.

Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

Even though it was a tiny role, I was very proud to be a part of the comedy, which became a cult classic.

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.

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I've done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.

I wanted to be like Jo March in 'Little Women.' I wanted to be married to a man who would give me lots of sons.