Every film is a crapshoot. It’s a mystery when a movie comes together. I’ve never been able to figure it out. I don’t know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there’s something about a character that you really want to experience. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
When you get into your 40s, it’s all about lighting. It’s hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it’s all about what’s in your heart. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
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. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
People love to talk about how the ’70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the ’80s, they got away with some of those too. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I’m not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
Like, that was weird in ‘Hamlet 2,’ because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, ‘Oh, I’m not playing myself. I’m some weird version of myself.’ So as an actress, you’re always playing something, I don’t even know who I am, how could I become me? I don’t know what that is. Elisabeth Shue Read Quote
