Top 40 Anjelica Huston Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.”

— Anjelica Huston

2. “Allen Carr’s Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible – to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.”

— Anjelica Huston

3. “Of wanting to pay my own way. I never asked my parents for money. I preferred to steal from my parents than ask them for money.”

— Anjelica Huston

4. “I do like the ocean wave, actually. I’m born under the sign of Cancer – the sign of the crab – so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such – although not the wide-open and deep seas.”

— Anjelica Huston

5. “I don’t think it’s necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck.”

— Anjelica Huston

6. “At a certain point you stop looking at your features, at what you don’t look like. You start looking at lines and signs of fatigue rather than at the shape of your mouth.”

— Anjelica Huston

7. “Of course drugs were fun. And that’s what’s so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don’t admit that. I can’t say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They’ve gotten a very bad name.”

— Anjelica Huston

8. “I’m a collector – I collect everything. I can’t throw things away. For some reason I think I’m going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.”

— Anjelica Huston

9. “It’s certainly what I like best about getting older. You’re not up for grabs for criticism anymore. You make a decision, it’s made, it’s fine, you don’t have to go back and rework it. You don’t have to apologize.”

— Anjelica Huston

10. “I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I’m the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don’t believe. I am constantly between the two.”

— Anjelica Huston

11. “I have two new nephews and a new niece this year, so I have plenty of kids that I can spend time with.”

— Anjelica Huston

12. “I get irritated when people counsel me on what I should do with my life, or tell me I should get married, or tell me what I should do. I think people have their role models for happiness and it helps if others fit into that.”

— Anjelica Huston

13. “I very much like doing voiceovers, and I also like doing readings. I do books on tape and stuff. I have fun with it.”

— Anjelica Huston

14. “My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I’m not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.”

— Anjelica Huston

15. “It was great to work in Ireland because it’s such a beautiful country, but it’s not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.”

— Anjelica Huston

16. “Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.”

— Anjelica Huston

17. “I loved being blonde. It’s true, they have more fun, even when they’re cannibalising their children.”

— Anjelica Huston

18. “Rather than go from one life to another, I think I live a lot of lives at the same time. I’ve done that ever since I was a child. It seemed that I was inhabited by some B movie.”

— Anjelica Huston

19. “I think all actors – they’ll hate me for saying this – but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we’ll do anything if we’re loved.”

— Anjelica Huston

20. “If I were to have any sort of solid idea about which moments were God’s manifestations, they would be those moments where one has practically nothing to do with what’s going on. It’s one of the best feelings in the world.”

— Anjelica Huston

21. “Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions – writing and painting.”

— Anjelica Huston

22. “What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.”

— Anjelica Huston

23. “I’d always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.”

— Anjelica Huston

24. “What I like to think, and perhaps it is an adolescent thought, is that anything can happen. As long as you think that anything can happen, it will. We’re all allowed to have our dreams.”

— Anjelica Huston

25. “One of the difficulties of being a writer must be that you create drama that you can’t live out. That’s one of the wonderful things about acting.”

— Anjelica Huston

26. “I like it when you read a script and there’s the part that you show to the other characters and then there’s the part that only the audience knows.”

— Anjelica Huston

27. “Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.”

— Anjelica Huston

28. “Age is not enviable in America. It’s not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt.”

— Anjelica Huston

29. “I’m not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don’t really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.”

— Anjelica Huston

30. “I like things pretty close around me. I like to know that my house is safe, that the people and animals I love are well and happy. I like to feel as peaceful as possible.”

— Anjelica Huston

31. “I had one nanny who made me sit in front of a bowl of porridge for three or four days running when I refused to eat it. I remember being very unhappy about that.”

— Anjelica Huston

32. “The terrible thing about acting is the stops and starts.”

— Anjelica Huston

33. “I think most actors like to be liked.”

— Anjelica Huston

34. “I’m very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don’t get to do enough.”

— Anjelica Huston

35. “I’m not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.”

— Anjelica Huston

36. “It would probably be very sensible to be in love with someone who was not in the arts and who wasn’t so prone to ups and downs. When I think of people who aren’t in the arts, I immediately think of politicians for some reason, and I would never want to be with a politician.”

— Anjelica Huston

37. “Even though it was a tiny role, I was very proud to be a part of the comedy, which became a cult classic.”

— Anjelica Huston

38. “I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world.”

— Anjelica Huston

39. “People say, “Why is it that you love to act?” And you want to say, “Well, most of acting is sitting in your trailer, either bored or worried about the scene coming up.” A lot of it is about things you don’t really like, so it’s a wonder why acting is such a huge draw, why everyone loves it so much.”

— Anjelica Huston

40. “Being called a person, as such, indicates that one should only have one character and be true to it.”

— Anjelica Huston

41. “I read much more that I do anything else. I don’t watch too much television, because I like books.”

— Anjelica Huston

42. “Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that’s how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren’t, it was all just a part of my everyday life.”

— Anjelica Huston

43. “Of course drugs were fun.”

— Anjelica Huston

44. “I don’t have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don’t find myself thinking about it a lot.”

— Anjelica Huston

45. “An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.”

— Anjelica Huston