American - Actress | January 8, 1942 -
Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level when shooting scenes over and over again.
Yvette Mimieux
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There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.
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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.
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We scuba dived in the Red Sea, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. We lived in Bali and India.
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It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.
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I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.
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I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them.
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Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!
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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.
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I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.
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I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.
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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.
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