Joey Lauren Adams

I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.

I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.