117 Quotes by Anjelica Huston

Age is not enviable in America. It’s not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

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.

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

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn’t so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren’t in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions – writing and painting.

I read much more that I do anything else. I don’t watch too much television, because I like books.

One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can’t live out. That’s one of the wonderful things about acting.

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.

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.