Jennifer Tilly Quotes

When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! That was the dream!

When I've got all the makeup on and all the spit, polish and glue together, I look fine. But I know what I really look like, and I'm still that same little kid under there. I don't think I look that great. I think I did a good job of creating Morgan Fairchild. But I created her.

I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on 'ER.' The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn't move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.

There's a limit to what I can do with a makeup or with animatronics.

I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

I've said this so many times but there's a magic when you have a really good actor in a really good makeup.

I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer's body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it's a good way to decompress.

I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.

Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

When they're good, there is nothing like a big film.

I wish my abs were a little bit better. God gave me a great body, but I think my abs could be better than they are.

If you know the filmmaker is good and the leading actor is a movie star like Diane Lane, you know you're part of something great.

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

The thing about abs is if you hit them daily, you feel more put-together.

People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life.

What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that's not how Hollywood works.

One of the easiest things to incorporate into your everyday life is plank exercises: great for your core, great for your lower back.

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

Film is lies at twenty-four frames a second.

In a pinch, I could always get work in pictures as a makeup artist.