Quotes By Elisabeth Shue

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Every experience makes you grow.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.