50 Quotes by Illeana Douglas

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.

My mom was a schoolteacher, and when I read the script, I saw her leaping out at me. It's actually her dress I'm wearing in the opening scenes.

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.

It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.