Top 25 Anjelica Huston Quotes

During the four years I had spent in New York, I had achieved top status as a model and had worked for the best photographers and designers in the world. I had grown used to hearing that I was exotic and high-fashion.

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

I read James Joyce’s short story ‘The Dead,’ and I love that movie for many reasons. It was the last film I made with my father, and it’s emotional for me as well as a movie I’m proud of.

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 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.

When you don’t have a nine-to-five job, and you’re with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it’s not that you resent it – it’s that you have all that extra time to think about it.

I spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror. Nearby, there was a stack of books. My favorites were ‘The Death of Manolete’ and the cartoons of Charles Addams. I would pretend to be Morticia Addams. I was drawn to her. I used to pull my eyes back and see how I’d look with slanted eyelids.

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

I think women like to conquer hearts. Men like to conquer countries.

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.

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 was very excited to do ‘The Witches.’ It was with one of my favorite directors, Nick Roeg, and I loved his work from ‘Don’t Look Now’ and ‘Eureka.’ So I was very excited to work with him. The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

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 must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte sisters, and Daphne du Maurier.

My father, John Marcellus Huston, was a director renowned for his adventurous style and audacious nature.

It’s the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

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.

I think most actors like to be liked.

If you’re in a situation where someone’s mistreating you, I think it’s your duty to speak out.

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.

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.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ is such a powerful book, and ‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

I loved working with Stephen Frears. He’s a really fantastic director. He knows what he wants and how to get it.

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

People often think that looking in the mirror is about narcissism. Children look at their reflection to see who they are. And they want to see what they can do with it, how plastic they can be, if they can touch their nose with their tongue, or what it looks like when they cross their eyes.