Anjelica Huston (Actor)

"I bought it when I was told beauty came from the inside. When you become older, it's an act of faith to believe beauty is inside. Do I like my looks? Sometimes. I'd say I'm one of those people who's handsome rather than beautiful. I have the same duality my father had. He could look wrinkled or child-like within hours. Feature-wise I'm more like him than [my mother]. I think I'm like a tall Englishwoman." - Anjelica Huston quoted in The Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 1990

"My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting. When you're a young woman, I think you want to please a lot, so maybe you accept more of the criticism than you would as an older person. But criticism can be very wounding. It certainly was to me." - Anjelica Huston to husband, Graham Fuller in Interview magazine, February 2000

About acting in and directing "Agnes Browne" (1999): "I'm more terrified by technology than I should be, but I'm pretty good with people, and certainly still better in front of the camera than behind it.

"I've been on sets a long time, so there's not a lot people can tell me about what goes on. I basically do what's honest to me, and rely on my cameraman [Anthony B. Richmond] to keep it on the right side of the line and to watch over me when I get so far into the acting discipline that I can't be objective." - Anjelica Huston to Premiere magazine, Women in Hollywood issue, 1999

On her first directing experience, the controversial "Bastard Out of Carolina" (1996): "I was surprised that a television network would embark on this. But since the script had been sent to me directly by TNT, I assumed they knew what they were getting into.

"As we made the film, I was left blissfully alone, and I received only good reports when I sent back my dailies. By the time I handed in my director's cut, I was feeling quite in the clover." - Anjelica Huston to The New York Times, Dec. 15, 1996

Remembering her father: "He was 6-foot-3; his voice was big. He was devastatingly attractive - even to his daughter as a child. I remember watching him get dressed sometimes. He would ask me about his ties - rows of ties. I would pick out something, and he would never follow my advice. He had a sort of contempt for vanity, but he knew exactly the kind of impact he had.

"He had a cruel streak - made him interesting. He liked his fun. It was certainly sometimes at the expense of others. I think he was sometimes reckless, and at worst thoughtless, but I don't think he was ever a man of bad intent. I think that he regretted things later, after he'd had time to consider. But I think if there were sin there, it was that he was very much preoccupied with what he wanted to do, which didn't necessarily coincide with his having a wife, or having children." - Anjelica Huston to The New York Times, Feb. 12, 1989