Teri Garr Quotes

I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

I have done so many films in which either I have been the main lead or part of the supporting cast.

I want to do more movies, more adult roles.

I've done action, songs, and dance in most of my films down South.

As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.

Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.

In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.

I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.

I spent a chunk of time in New Orleans doing the movie 'Free State Of Jones,' getting to work with Matthew McConaughey, and also did 'Concussion,' where I got to work with Will Smith.

Whether it's Cyd Charisse and Fred Astaire or 'West Side Story,' see it on the big screen. That's the way we should appreciate it.

'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

I'm very proud of 'That Kind of Woman' with Sophia Loren, directed by Sidney Lumet, and I loved doing 'Gunman's Walk' because I finally got to play a bad guy.

I like not knowing about my favourite actresses and actors. I love seeing Meryl Streep up there and knowing so little about who she is outside of what she's playing on screen.

I've made a few independent films now and a few movies with Disney, and I've done TV.

I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'