Words matter. These are the best Yvette Mimieux Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Like many other tourists, I’m afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.
I believe women should be feminine.
While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself… and while I’m not a science fiction buff, I consider ‘2001’ a great film, absolutely enthralling; at ‘Star Wars’ I had a fabulous time, and, at ‘Alien,’ while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.
Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.
I decided I didn’t want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.
Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!
I’d been acting since I was a teenager. I’d come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
I don’t like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I’m too old for some parts.
There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that’s true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.
It’s not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.
I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.
I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called ‘The Delta Factor,’ and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.
I’ve never been one to enjoy just sitting around.
To give a successful character portrayal on stage or on film, the part has to be played inside of you.
Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level when shooting scenes over and over again.
Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.
The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by some college film student for $25,000, it is almost sure to be admired and respected.
The less I give of myself to the public, the less I can be hurt.
I’ve been painting all my life, and I’m serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.
