42 Quotes by Lili Taylor

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don’t succeed.

There’s been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn’t have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can’t count the ways a director’s vision is compromised.

It’s tricky to say ‘never,’ but I will never have plastic surgery.

I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the ’90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it’s real. I’m glad I woke up before my body was just like ’uh-uh.

It’s been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.

If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they’re gonna be concerned about whether they’ll get it back. So they’re not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?

You can rest a lot in an hour or have a whole day and not do it properly. One way I get a quality recharge is to connect with nature. To experience something that’s bigger than me.

To do work that’s not going to be fulfilling doesn’t make sense.

Two things I’m trying to work on are openness and flexibility.