Daphne Zuniga Quotes & Sayings

That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself. — Daphne Zuniga

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. — Daphne Zuniga

To play a bag woman is brave for any woman. — Daphne Zuniga

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from. — Daphne Zuniga

I usually get recognized for Spaceballs. — Daphne Zuniga

How many times have I been in my therapist's office, saying, "I think I'm smarter than this! I've been down this road! I've learned this lesson!" And she's like, "Yeah, and you're learning it a little bit deeper." — Daphne Zuniga

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. — Daphne Zuniga

Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him. — Daphne Zuniga

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. — Daphne Zuniga

Where the terror is, is where you must go. — Daphne Zuniga

Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed. — Daphne Zuniga

She's a real adventurer, my mother. — Daphne Zuniga

You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone. — Daphne Zuniga

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. — Daphne Zuniga

Start to become active in what u love DOING. People admire action, courage&real happiness far more than they admire a size 2 — Daphne Zuniga

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again. — Daphne Zuniga

Where I'm just sort of shocked into the revelation, once again, of this planet is a living organism; this living thing, being alive, is a living thing. It's every breath you take. That was the last one. It'll never come back. You are riding on this wave of awareness, second to second to second. — Daphne Zuniga

People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired. — Daphne Zuniga

There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes. — Daphne Zuniga

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life. — Daphne Zuniga

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature. — Daphne Zuniga

I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up. — Daphne Zuniga

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination. — Daphne Zuniga

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus. — Daphne Zuniga

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening. — Daphne Zuniga

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons! — Daphne Zuniga

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays. — Daphne Zuniga

I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. — Daphne Zuniga

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. — Daphne Zuniga

I've been on shows that go for shock value. — Daphne Zuniga

I'm a late bloomer. Being a late bloomer is a problem when you decide at 40 you want to have children. — Daphne Zuniga

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive. — Daphne Zuniga

I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a father leaving, and a mother not being home, and her struggling and doing her best and all that. But it wasn't fun. I would go into theater class. If she were a stay-at-home mom, I wouldn't have that discomfort inside that kept me pushing. — Daphne Zuniga

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything. — Daphne Zuniga

Hey! I don't have to put up with this! I'm rich! — Daphne Zuniga

Without vulnerability, you're not really alive. — Daphne Zuniga

I get really excited when I have moments where my head - my mind - disappears, and I get this moment where I start to tingle, and maybe sweat a little bit, when I'm in that space of feeling real connected with everything, every living thing. I first started feeling this probably as a child, but again when I started meditating. — Daphne Zuniga

Telling the truth. I finally have that with my boyfriend, and that makes me vulnerable constantly. Without vulnerability, you're not really alive. Your vulnerability is your power. Sitting in your house alone, breathing through it. Calling a friend when you need to cry. Being really honest in your therapist's office. Whatever it is. Bringing it into a role, for me. It is your power. — Daphne Zuniga

It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point? — Daphne Zuniga

Your vulnerability is your power. — Daphne Zuniga

Whatever the emotion is, I have learned over the years to give it space, which is also why I love acting. — Daphne Zuniga

In one sense, I felt not seen and heard enough as a child. At the very same time, I'm watching her and modeling her. At seventeen, I left to go to Hollywood to pursue my dream, as if there was no other option. I only learned that, the gift of it, recently. And I often forget it. — Daphne Zuniga