Jennifer Tilly

Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought - I want to sell out!

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

Everybody knows that love goes away.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.