Meg Tilly Quotes

I`m not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it`s because they`re a mess underneath.

I really enjoy acting. At home I can`t even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife`s dream, to be an actress part-time.

I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I`m contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You`re cleaning up vomit and it`s 2 in the morning, and you`re wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

Acting`s not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.

That is why it`s so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Look, I know he`s been married three times before. I accept it, but I don`t want it driving up the driveway.

I didn`t plan to act, but I`m glad I`m doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won`t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn`t have a good time.

I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.

I wasn`t really interested in doing television. I don`t have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you`re supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I wanted to write something from a child`s viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.