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I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Love, Magic, Behind, Stepfather

My mom's a screenwriter, and before that, she was an actress, and my father was an actor; my stepfather was a director, so I was on sets a lot as a kid. I loved the magic of the set. You walk in, and it's a living room, and you walk outside, and it's just a piece of wood held up by another piece of wood.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Magic, Before, Held, Stepfather

I think I live in this mythical world where doing the parts I do is not going to hurt me, and telling people my age is not going to hurt me. And it actually does. It's a bit sick-making but, you know, I can't change who I am.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Doing, I Think, Telling, Hurt

I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Communicate, Kinds, Portrayal

I love acting, but I am a mom, and the roles just weren't coming because of a mixture of things: because I'm not ambitious, and because I'm older, and I had a baby. I really felt like I had said a graceful and completely happy goodbye to acting in a significant way. And I had sort of made my peace with that.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Love, Happy, Roles, Graceful

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Audience, Audience Member, Actively

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Audience, Movie, Participate, Actively

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Say, Been, Gratifying, Satisfying

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Producing, Incredibly, Satisfying

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Everybody, Years And Years, OK

I'd much rather be in a movie that people have really strong feelings about than one that makes a hundred million dollars but you can't remember because it's just like all the others.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Strong, Movie, Hundred, Million Dollars

There's a lot of magic involved in movies that as a child I really appreciated. So I love bringing my son to set. It reminds me of what I loved doing as a child, and also, as an actor, you have a lot of down time.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Love, Magic, Doing, Reminds

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Hang, Anybody, About, Table

My mother always helped me because she was kind of a research fanatic. When she would write a screenplay, there would be so much research all over the walls. And so when I started working as an actress, I would do the same thing. She instilled in me a love of taking everything very seriously. It didn't matter what it was.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Love, Very, Same Thing, Instilled

I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Peasant, Which, Means, Nutritionist

'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Think, Very, Particularly, Party

I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

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Love, Polaroid, I Love, Camera

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Empathy, Think, Otherwise, Detest

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

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Suppressing, Lot, Means, Good Girl

When you get called to come in and audition for Tarantino, it's incredibly exciting.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Audition, Get, Incredibly, Tarantino

People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had guys, when I've been single, come out of the woodwork to date me and I've found out very quickly that they were expecting some kind of whirlwind, some dramatic crazy person - and that's just not me.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Play, Date, Very, Whirlwind

'The Hateful Eight' is like theatre.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Theatre, Like, Eight, Hateful

I feel like I had a great career in a way. Maybe not the most successful monetarily or in other ways, but creatively, I feel incredibly fortunate.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Career, Other, Like, Creatively

I used to go to Haagen-Dazs and order three banana splits at a time!

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Banana, Go, Used, Splits

I think I am talented - but I also think I'm very lucky.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Think, Lucky, Very, Talented

On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Mysterious, Film, Very, Dull

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Door, Play, Next, Bore

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Play, Inhabit, Roles, Real Life

Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Innocent, Like, Sweetheart, Blues

People equate success with youth. And if you haven't had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it's never going to happen. There's a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I've never done that because I think it's so insignificant.

- Jennifer Jason Leigh

Young, I Think, About, Insignificant

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