Virginia Madsen Quotes (15 Quotes)

The last studio film I made was Fire with Fire for Universal in 1984. After that, I had to fight for the independent movies and TV projects I got. I never received mainstream offers any more. I sort of languished on the detour route. It makes you feel so inadequate. You see yourself as a loser.

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.

The Prairie Home Companion.

When my son was really little, he assumed everyone was on TV because his uncle is on TV, my best friend is on TV, friends I know are in movies and his grandmother is a writer. One day he was looking at this commercial and he was positive that his nanny was in it. I said, No, honey. That's not her.

I think that all of us are just really so amazed that we're going. It seems the dominating factors are 'Million Dollar Baby' and '(The) Aviator,' and there's some things that our film can't compete with in the marketplace.

Men, we don't need you to be a knight in shining armor. We just need you to be a little bit brave, just a little bit. And some of them are, and that's what he does.

I saw her when she was like 10-years-old in The Barbara Mandrell Story, which is pretty bizarre since it was on in Canada the first week we were there... so strange. I knew her face. I kind of remembered her, but I didn't know anything about her family.

I just find it so refreshing to work with a young person who is that professional and that focused on doing a good job... really responsible.

I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying it, it's me. Lindsey would never say that. She's an actress first. It's just a bonus that she can dance and sing.

I mean, sometimes people get into big debates. Like when we were in Washington, big debating audiences. Debates about women and men, men and women, what's it all about. I'll tell ya. Sometimes they get into a bit of man-bashing and I always try to go, Hey, you know what you guys That's not really what it's about.

I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies.

To me it meant, just looking at it from a Maya point of view, it meant that Paul Miles is always moving laterally in his life. And she just wants him to take a couple of steps forward, you know?

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

He's really sharp and I find him to be an extremely observant person. He watches people and he listens to people, and he likes actors. He likes working with actors. He likes his crew, and so he creates an atmosphere on his set that is really conducive to our creativity - and the crew's, as well.

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.