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Quotes by Lili Taylor

Being famous gives you a lot of illusions of false self, of self-importance, a grandiosity, it becomes difficult to stay humble and real. You see so many people who don't succeed.
– Lili Taylor
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
– Lili Taylor
I do believe there's good in all of us, even if it's layered over so thickly.
– Lili Taylor
I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.
– Lili Taylor
I tried to do the commercial thing. But I don't want to keep shoving Twinkies down everyone's throat. People are hungry for something of more substance.
– Lili Taylor
I'm realizing that the hard work has really paid off - not hard work acting-wise, but spiritually and principle-wise. That's given me faith enough that my heart hasn't led me astray. I've started to realize that you can do it your way. There are no rules.
– Lili Taylor
If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?
– Lili Taylor
It moves me when anybody is just wandering through life, sleepwalking, and then wakes up. It's like the caterpillar to butterfly thing - the chrysalis. It's just so moving because they're not going to go to their grave with a slipping down life.
– Lili Taylor
It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by.
– Lili Taylor
My thing is that anybody's interesting if you go into the complexities. That's my problem with the whore. We've seen the whore, obviously, two-dimensionally, one-dimensionally. But if we're truly going to portray a whore in a complicated light, then I'm interested.
– Lili Taylor
The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors.
– Lili Taylor
When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up.
– Lili Taylor
When you get into that kind of studio money, there's a price on everything. And I haven't been willing to pay that price.
– Lili Taylor
There's been a slow death in a way. On the positive side, there are films getting into the Academy Awards that wouldn't have, but on the negative side, financiers are now dominant and making all the decisions. I can't count the ways a director's vision is compromised.
– Lili Taylor