75 Quotes by Jennifer Jason Leigh

I’d love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I’m doing them.

I worked with great, brilliant directors. I’ve been so lucky. It’s terrible to compare anyone, because you can’t. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.

I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.