Lili Taylor quotes Her role as waitress Jojo in 'Mystic Pizza' (1988) Born: 02/20/1967 Country: usa

• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [life/thing]
• “It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.” (Lili Taylor) [follow]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [weird/thing/business/present]
• “Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.” (Lili Taylor) [strange]
• “I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.” (Lili Taylor)
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [respect]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [essence/moment]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [thing/people/more]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [money/price]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [faith]
• “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?” (Lili Taylor) [movie/movie/girls]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [thing/problem/light]
• “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.” (Lili Taylor) [people]

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