American - Actress | January 8, 1942 -
Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.
Yvette Mimieux
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Age should be no consideration between two people romantically or sexually involved. Social approval shouldn't even be considered.
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I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.
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I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.
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I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.
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I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role.
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There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.
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I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.
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Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.
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Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.
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While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself... and while I'm not a science fiction buff, I consider '2001' a great film, absolutely enthralling; at 'Star Wars' I had a fabulous time, and, at 'Alien,' while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.
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I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.
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