29 Quotes by Yvette Mimieux

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by some college film student for $25,000, it is almost sure to be admired and respected.

I've never been one to enjoy just sitting around.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

In 'Forbidden Love,' my character is a divorcee who has an affair with a young doctor. They are blissfully happy and have everything going for them. But their peers, friends, her daughter, and his family disapprove, and the affair ends.

I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

I learned to act reactively very well because those were the sorts of roles I was given for 20 years. It was hard to break out of that typecasting.