Lili Taylor Quotes

• "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."
• "Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical."
• "I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly."
• "I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it."
• "I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance."
• "I'm realizing that the hard work has really paid off - not hard work acting-wise, but spiritually and principle-wise. That's given me faith enough that my heart hasn't led me astray. I've started to realize that you can do it your way. There are no rules."
• "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?"
• "It moves me when anybody is just wandering through life, sleepwalking, and then wakes up. It's like the caterpillar to butterfly thing - the chrysalis. It's just so moving because they're not going to go to their grave with a slipping down life."
• "It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by."
• "My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested."
• "The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors."
• "When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up."
• "When you get into that kind of studio money, there's a price on everything. And I haven't been willing to pay that price."