American - Actress | February 5, 1962 -
I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
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I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.
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I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie.
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I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.
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I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.
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On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.
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I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.
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I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.
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I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
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Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
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I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.
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