66 Quotes by Virginia Madsen

The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.

I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I'd opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it's constantly evolving and gaining complexity.

Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn’t understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.

I’m a fan. I would have been a fan of Candyman even if I hadn’t been in that movie. I’m a huge fan of Star Trek, which is why I was in Star Trek: Voyager – because I begged them to be a part of that lore.

I really didn’t like Batgirl. I was like, “No, if I’m not gonna be Batman, I’m not gonna play.” Maybe they could write an evil female super villain who takes over Batman, and nobody knows.

I like how wine continues to evolve, like if I opened a bottle of wine today it would taste different than if I’d opened it on any other day, because a bottle of wine is actually alive. And it’s constantly evolving and gaining complexity.

I am a proud mother – that’s another reason I love doing any kind of animation. When my son was growing up, if he was watching something animated and I was in it, that was way cooler to him than seeing me in a movie.

If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I’ll still be saying that to him when I’m 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he’s a teenager, so that never really happens.

I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn’t really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn’t come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.