Illeana Douglas quotes Her role as Janice Maretto in 'To Die For' (1995) Born: 07/25/1965 Country: usa

• God only knows what else is on the web about me. (Illeana Douglas) [god]
• I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress. (Illeana Douglas) [horror]
• I come from a pretty strange family. (Illeana Douglas) [strange/family]
• I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do. (Illeana Douglas) [more/more]
• I grew up in a small suburban town where your idea of success is moving miles away. (Illeana Douglas)
• I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies. (Illeana Douglas)
• I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action. (Illeana Douglas) [willpower/action]
• I like doing movies that relate to people's experience. (Illeana Douglas) [experience]
• I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world. (Illeana Douglas) [people]
• I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic. (Illeana Douglas) [love/magic]
• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny. (Illeana Douglas) [love/fantasy/night/day]
• I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had. (Illeana Douglas) [ghost]
• I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man. (Illeana Douglas) [grandfather]
• I often take clothes from my mom's closet, because she was a Simplicity pattern model in the 1950s and loves clothes. She's also a total pack rat. (Illeana Douglas) [take/clothes//clothes]
• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing. (Illeana Douglas) [character/more]
• I want to bring back some sketch comedy. I did work with a group called Manhattan Punch Line with Oliver Platt in the early '80s. (Illeana Douglas) [group]
• I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. (Illeana Douglas)
• I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films. (Illeana Douglas) [follow]
• I'm a huge poster collector. (Illeana Douglas)
• I'm half-Italian. My grandmother would say stuff like, You look awful, but I don't mean that in a bad way. (Illeana Douglas) [look/bad]
• I've done a bunch of short films. (Illeana Douglas)
• I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing. (Illeana Douglas) [start]
• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting. (Illeana Douglas) [high/school]
• It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies. (Illeana Douglas) [nice/film/think/wish]
• It used to be much easier for me to flit between a studio and an independent film, but now it depends a lot more on the director. (Illeana Douglas) [film/more/director]
• It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting. (Illeana Douglas) [role]
• It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family. (Illeana Douglas) [weird/family]
• It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding. (Illeana Douglas) [nice/movie/people]
• My mom was a schoolteacher, and when I read the script, I saw her leaping out at me. It's actually her dress I'm wearing in the opening scenes. (Illeana Douglas)
• The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened. (Illeana Douglas) [time]
• The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you. (Illeana Douglas) [situation/trust]

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