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Jennifer Jason Leigh Quotes

I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: February 5, 1962

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Great Feel Career Way Successful

I'm completely allergic to being politically correct.

Being Allergic Politically Correct

Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came at a time when contemporary music had become so complex, so experimental and detached that people turned away from it. Minimalism broke that trend and brought music back to the people.

Music Time People Back Important

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

Melanie Laurent

Care Reality You Nice Movies Set

Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

Wrong Kind Special Horror Up Seem

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Age Myself Men Me Legal Hands

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Music Age World Feel Young Inside

I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.

Michael Robotham

Love Opportunity People Doing Write

As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch.

Character Beginning Fun End You Go

I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.

Character People Random Think You

When I was growing up in the '80s and working in the theater, David Mamet exploded with a whole new reworking of what dialogue should sound like. It was punchy and raw and repetitive, bursting with dynamic. I remember that switching on a lot of lights for me.

Anthony McCarten

Me Growing Up Remember Lights New

I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling.

Art Smiling Sitting Mastered

I may not have a practical mind, but it's very fixated on concrete things. I like detail.

Alma Guillermoprieto

Mind Detail Concrete Things May

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