Quotes by Jennifer Jason Leigh

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

Your best friend is the only one who would tell you the person you are in love with is a sexually ambivalent man-child.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.