The nature of acting is that one is many characters and jumps from one skin to another as a way of life. Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what all of your characters think at the same time. Sometimes one of my characters overrules one of my other characters. I'm trying to get them all to harmonize. It's a hell of a job. It's like driving a coach.

Anjelica Huston

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There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.

Anjelica Huston

dog goodbye children

What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We're all allowed to have our dreams.

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dream long thinking

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

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terrible feelings remember

Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.

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being-true should character

I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.

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book television world

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

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giving-up smoking years

I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.

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role-models people thinking

I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.

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offering father thinking

I loved being blonde. It's true, they have more fun, even when they're cannibalising their children.

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blonde fun children

It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn't so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren't in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.

Anjelica Huston

people art thinking

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

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bored ambition running

I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.

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house animal people

I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two.

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couple believe father

I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.

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love-relationship healthy thinking

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

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affection fighting men

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

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growth evolution age

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

Anjelica Huston

scripts shows character

The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.

Anjelica Huston

terrible-things terrible acting

My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me.

Anjelica Huston

wise father thinking

Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

Anjelica Huston

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