Teri Garr Quotes

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.

I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

I love Michelle Williams and Natalie Portman - those are the careers I want. My goal is to win an Oscar, and I'm going to take the steps to get there.

Professionally, I really respect Natalie Portman - her career choices, actually going for stuff with substance.

I was very lucky that my first film, 'The Blind Side,' I worked with Sandra Bullock.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Well, it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.

I'm not aiming for an Academy Award.

I admire Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman for their sheer dedication to their craft.

There are maybe 100 actors I look up to, but my first two favourite actors were Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson.

The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

We made one film called Thy Neighbor's Wife in which I got flogged at the public whipping post for adultery. I did my best acting in that film, I guess.

In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.

My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

It's definitely an exciting time to be an actress.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career.

I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.