Melanie Griffith quotes

Most people are telling me I look horrible. (Melanie Griffith)

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it-despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious.

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I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect.

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If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that.

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I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

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People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?

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I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.

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It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

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Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40.

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There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story.

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I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director. (Melanie Griffith)

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.

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When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

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There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

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People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

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To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education.

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There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

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You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

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I think there's something inherently different about working with females. I mean, it's just a different way of looking at life, being a woman. But I think we can handle many things at one time and I don't think that's necessarily true for men.

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In my profession you have to be very strong within yourself in order to block out the rejection and block out the opinions and the commentary that happens.

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I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer. (Melanie Griffith)

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.

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In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

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Honestly I've enjoyed every part that I've done. Literally. Every one.

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You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything.

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