Elisabeth Shue Quotes

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Elisabeth Shue

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 6, 1963

I want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.

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After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are successful are more savvy.

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I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.

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The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.

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I try really hard to give my kids as much independence as I can, caring mostly about their character: Are they kind? Generous? Do they work hard?

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It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

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Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

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I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

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I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

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After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

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I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

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I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

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I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

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I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

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I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

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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.

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I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.

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The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

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My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

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Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

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