Quotes By Kelly Lynch

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

My idols are all older.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.