Meg Tilly Quotes
"There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Help, Wishing)
"That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Life, Movies, Fun)
"Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Driving, Want)
"It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Daughter, Children, Fathers, Publicity, Support, Writing, Years)
"If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: People, Successful, Eyes, Feeling, Hollywood, Sense)
"I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Women, Fashion)
"I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Movies)
"Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Life, Acting, Children, First)
"I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Friends)
"I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Home, Dream, Acting, Housewife, Reading)
"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Change, Being, Living, Thinking)
"I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Movies, Work, Successful, Children, Order, Years)
"I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Act, Want)
"Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Movies, Emotion, Horror)
"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Children)
"If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time."
- Meg Tilly
(Related: Time, Control, Thinking, Will)