Meg Tilly Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first. — Meg Tilly

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

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

I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right. — Meg Tilly

I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me. — Meg Tilly

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

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

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

I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am. — Meg Tilly

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

I have nothing intelligent to say. — Meg Tilly

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better. — Meg Tilly

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

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

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

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

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

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion. — Meg Tilly