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.

If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God's manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what's going on. It's one of the best feelings in the world.

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

People say, "Why is it that you love to act?" And you want to say, "Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up." A lot of it is about things you don't really like, so it's a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

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.