Illeana Douglas Quotes (32 Quotes)

When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.

In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.

I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.

I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.

It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

I often take clothes from my mom's closet, because she was a Simplicity pattern model in the 1950s and loves clothes. She's also a total pack rat.

There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.

I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

God only knows what else is on the web about me.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

It used to be much easier for me to flit between a studio and an independent film, but now it depends a lot more on the director.

I want to bring back some sketch comedy. I did work with a group called Manhattan Punch Line with Oliver Platt in the early '80s.

When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.

The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.

It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.

We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.

My mom was a schoolteacher, and when I read the script, I saw her leaping out at me. It's actually her dress I'm wearing in the opening scenes.

I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

I come from a pretty strange family.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

I'm a huge poster collector.

I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.