All quotations and phrases said by Illeana Douglas including famous quotes

God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.
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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
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I like the idea of capturing people who aren't there to save the world.
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
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I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man.
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I often take clothes from my mom's closet, because she was a Simplicity pattern model in the 1950s and loves clothes. She's also a total pack rat.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I want to bring back some sketch comedy. I did work with a group called Manhattan Punch Line with Oliver Platt in the early '80s.
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I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.
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I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.
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I'm a huge poster collector.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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It is nice to do an independent film that can be a commercial hit. I think comedies do really well. I wish more independent films were comedies.
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It used to be much easier for me to flit between a studio and an independent film, but now it depends a lot more on the director.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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It wasn't too weird to be working with a dummy. My brother worked with puppets in Czechoslovakia, so anything goes in our family.
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It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
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My mom was a schoolteacher, and when I read the script, I saw her leaping out at me. It's actually her dress I'm wearing in the opening scenes.
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash, by the time it came out, it was completely different from what we had signed up for. I don't know what happened.
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The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
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There are embarrassing pictures of me from high school. I don't know what kind of look I was trying to achieve.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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