Yvette Mimieux Quotes

Yvette Mimieux

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 8, 1942

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

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There are tribes in Africa who believe that a camera steals a little part of your soul, and in a way, I think that's true about living your private life in public. It takes something away from your relationships; it cheapens them.

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There's a whole beautiful world out there, and it was like riding a magic carpet, getting to know exotic, faraway places.

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Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

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I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

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We scuba dived in the Red Sea, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. We lived in Bali and India.

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It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

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I learned to act reactively very well because those were the sorts of roles I was given for 20 years. It was hard to break out of that typecasting.

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I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.

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I had always loved Haitian art, but I stumbled onto Haiti quite by accident. I went there on vacation after finishing a movie called 'The Delta Factor,' and I met lot of painters and fell in love with their folk art.

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I suppose I had a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role.

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I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

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I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

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I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them.

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Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

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Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

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The critics mostly review the budgets when they go to see a big-budget movie. They are out to get a big-budget movie. On the other hand, if they review a picture that is done as a graduate thesis by some college film student for $25,000, it is almost sure to be admired and respected.

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While I prefer generally more personal dramas in which I can stretch myself... and while I'm not a science fiction buff, I consider '2001' a great film, absolutely enthralling; at 'Star Wars' I had a fabulous time, and, at 'Alien,' while it was a silly story, I was knocked out.

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I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

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Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

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