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Elisabeth Shue Quotes

 

• 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.

• She reminds you of the joyfulness that you felt when you first started and reminds you to never let that go.

• She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is working, she comes, and she runs and hugs everybody in the morning, and her beautiful smile just sort of forces everybody, pushes them, to open up to the day.

• I used to have a very political answer to that question. I'd say it was a way to make money to pay for my education. And now, after years of therapy, I see it was a desperate need to express my own individuality. Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

• Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in yourself. We spend so much time trying to control our feelings out of fear that something may happen, that somebody may not love us, or walk away or die. It's only when you stop living in that fear of what other people might do to you or how they will react, only then are you free to be alive.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• I don't know if that's really true. Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

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

• If I'd known that it was just going to be about these guys throwing drinks around then I might have had some second thoughts...

• She has a wisdom beyond her years. But what I love about her most is that she is a girl. Her playfulness and her appreciation for where she is, is so strong that it re-inspires you. She has a beautiful imagination, and she believes the circumstances of the characters. She's in the moment, and she has great instincts, and she works hard. It's not just instinct. She's brilliant.

• I was really so excited and thought, `If there's a part, I don't care what it is, I'm going to do it, just because I love her so much.'

 

Elisabeth Shue Filmography

2007 - Gracie
2007 - First Born
2005 - Dreamer
2005 - Hide and Seek
2004 - Mysterious Skin
2000 - Hollow Man
1999 - Molly
1998 - Palmetto
1998 - Cousin Bette
1997 - The Saint
1996 - The Trigger Effect
1995 - Leaving Las Vegas
1993 - Heart and Souls
1991 - Soapdish
1990 - Back to the Future Part III
1989 - Back to the Future Part II
1988 - Cocktail
1987 - Adventures in Babysitting
1986 - Link
1984 - The Karate Kid

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