Robin Wright Quotes

I want to be perfect. I don`t want to fail. And you always fail.

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don`t know. Depends.

Sean`s movies are provocative and challenging without being slick.

I`ve always wanted to be able to let myself go over the edge.

No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.

I have such a little face.

I just love getting dirty.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

Sean`s a better person when he`s directing. He becomes a queen when he`s an actor. And he`s so unhappy when he`s acting.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

Everyone has the answers.

I like the whole package to be good, It`s a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

I like movies that make you think.

Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me.

I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He`s a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I`ve been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

It`s what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it`s never been before. There`s nothing better than that.

I`d rather attempt something I`m not sure I can do.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That`s how we were raised.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn`t do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way.

I have always been a good mimic.

Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You`re coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I would have made a lousy stripper. I`m just not very comfortable exposing myself.

My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom.

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl.

Unless you`re a star in this town, you`re really nothing.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I`m not.

It`s just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We`ll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

If you`re happy, if you`re feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Sean`s a great, great writer.

Choosing these kinds of intense roles is becoming sort of a bad habit. Playing the average manic-depressive woman who`s hitting 40 - yep, that`d be me. Bring it on! But I think what it is, really, is that (Hollywood) sees you do certain roles and says, `Okay, that`s her, let`s cast her again and again as the same thing.` Then you wind up saying, `I`d like to do something else,` and they whine, `But why?`

They`re good kids and they love to read.

This was pure terror. And the seeds that we now see played out in so many countries in so many parts of the Islamic world,

a variety of credible Lebanese sources.

Famous is celebrityism and I don`t want that. I know that I`m not that. Everybody knows who you are, I can`t imagine living that life.

These heavy movies, you carry them with you. Some days, when it would be great to chill and be a mom and just crash, I`m so wired, I can`t turn it off. I would love to do a comedy again, it would be so much fun. Do people know that? Let`s tell `em!

We viewed this as a very clear case of theft.

(The poles were taken off display, and work was begun) to do the right thing, ... Things that have been stolen are not appropriate to exhibit without the permission of the true owners and should be returned.

They definitely get very eloquent sometimes. I`m always so amazed at how insightful they are.

The revolution of electronics hasn`t taken away the good smell of books. It`s really hopeful to see.

On working on the soap "Santa Barbara" (1984). "I don`t want to knock it. It`s been great. This has been my acting class - and paid training ain`t bad."

You can`t get better at something unless you evaluate how well you are doing.