Pfeiffer Quotes

I`m hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films. I get recognized sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it`s not a problem. I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingénue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer or Jessica Lange. I`m a bit quirkier than that.

On Michelle Pfeiffer: "I`d worked with Michelle when I was a kid (on To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday) so we already kind of had a sense of each other," Danes says. "But she`s obviously alarmingly beautiful. Disarmingly beautiful. And really funny in this. And actually gives a really subversive performance which I don`t know if people will expect. And she`s really very focused - I think maybe a little perfectionistic."

That ain`t fair, really. Michelle Pfeiffer hasn`t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn`t like what a woman her age is offered. That`s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn`t work the other way around. - on working with young female co-stars

I`ve been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like Cinderella in my real life than I was like the neurotic poet in Cop (1988). Age has nothing to do with being the kind of actress who relies not on magnetic personality, but on disappearing into the person you`re playing instead. For my money, Michelle Pfeiffer`s a character actress - it`s got nothing to do with looks, or age, or whether it`s the leading role.

(On losing the role of Frankie, which had been written for her by playwright Terrence McNally, to Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie version of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune") "I thought it was wonderful to see a love story about people over forty, ordinary people who were trying to connect. We haven`t seen it before, and I don`t think we will see it with this movie Frankie and Johnny (1991)."

I`m hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films. I get recognized sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it`s not a problem. I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingénue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer or Jessica Lange. I`m a bit quirkier than that.