Top 40 Anne Heche Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.”

— Anne Heche

2. “I’m not crazy, but it’s a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.”

— Anne Heche

3. “We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.”

— Anne Heche

4. “I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me.”

— Anne Heche

5. “I do know something. Just not with any certainty.”

— Anne Heche

6. “I’m always honest, whether I’m in the limelight or not.”

— Anne Heche

7. “To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.”

— Anne Heche

8. “What’s so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don’t understand the obsession with fakeness. It’s a very odd thing, isn’t it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.”

— Anne Heche

9. “It’s no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don’t want that for my life or my children’s life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that’s not going to happen to me. I’m not going to end up in a car.”

— Anne Heche

10. “I’m one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.”

— Anne Heche

11. “Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.”

— Anne Heche

12. “Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.”

— Anne Heche

13. “I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn’t I just walk into an office?”

— Anne Heche

14. “He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren’t for my father, I don’t think I would be so open. So that’s a huge blessing.”

— Anne Heche

15. “And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn’t be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother’s prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.”

— Anne Heche

16. “I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice.”

— Anne Heche

17. “That’s probably the most boring conversation you could hear – an actor talk about politics. I won’t go there.”

— Anne Heche

18. “The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.”

— Anne Heche

19. “Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let’s hope so. I’m not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let’s hope we’re looking at the insides of people a little more.”

— Anne Heche

20. “I don’t belong to the straights now – they didn’t get me back.”

— Anne Heche

21. “It’s important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.”

— Anne Heche

22. “I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I’m a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness.”

— Anne Heche

23. “When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it’s gonna be better for you. But I honestly don’t know that.”

— Anne Heche

24. “It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.”

— Anne Heche

25. “I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.”

— Anne Heche

26. “It’s always a challenge to make an independent film. It’s always a challenge to make a low budget film.”

— Anne Heche

27. “For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.”

— Anne Heche

28. “I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.”

— Anne Heche

29. “I’m very grateful for the platform that I’ve had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.”

— Anne Heche

30. “Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.”

— Anne Heche

31. “Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It’s not just about complicated women.”

— Anne Heche

32. “We’re in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she’s young, she’s an ingenue, she’s a hero, she’s the lover of somebody, she’s the grandmother, she’s a chef.”

— Anne Heche

33. “I have been very clear to everybody that just because I’m getting married does not mean I call myself a straight.”

— Anne Heche

34. “I was raised to pretend.”

— Anne Heche

35. “When you are coming out, you say it’s for you. But when everybody says it’s not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.”

— Anne Heche

36. “It’s my job, to create a fantasy.”

— Anne Heche

37. “I’ve always kind of gone with my heart.”

— Anne Heche

38. “Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.”

— Anne Heche

39. “I searched so hard for a part that was so complex.”

— Anne Heche

40. “I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.”

— Anne Heche

41. “The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.”

— Anne Heche