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 I wanted to write something from a child`s viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need. Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.
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I know that in order to be considered successful, you`re supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
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I wasn`t really interested in doing television. I don`t have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.
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I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.
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If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won`t think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn`t have a good time.
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I didn`t plan to act, but I`m glad I`m doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.
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Look, I know he`s been married three times before. I accept it, but I don`t want it driving up the driveway.
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That is why it`s so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
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If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
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Acting`s not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
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I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.
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It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
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There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You`re cleaning up vomit and it`s 2 in the morning, and you`re wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
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I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I`m contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
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I really enjoy acting. At home I can`t even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife`s dream, to be an actress part-time.
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I`m not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it`s because they`re a mess underneath.
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Trivia
Son, with Colin Firth, William (b. 1990).
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Children from her marriage to Tim Zinnemann: Emily (b. 1984) and David (b. 1986).
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Said that her worst film experience was working with Anthony Perkins in Psycho II (1983). Her best film experience was working with Norman Jewison, Jane Fonda and Anne Bancroft in Agnes of God (1985). Interestingly, both films resulted in Tilly being nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe and an Oscar.
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While filming One Dark Night (1983), she was incredibly uncomfortable in the actual mausoleum. Her reactions to her surroundings were often genuine. During the scenes where she was hysterical, she actually did throw herself into hysterics and it took her awhile after each take to calm herself down.
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While older sister Jennifer Tilly has remained mum about the history of childhood sexual abuse in the family recently revealed by Meg (which included her stepfather and one of her mother`s boyfriends), youngest sister Becky has corroborated her sister`s revelations.
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Her first fiction novel was "Singing Songs" (1994; Dutton Books) based on memories of her own childhood. Her second novel "Gemma" (2006; Syren Book Company), is a graphic, disturbing tale about child sexual abuse, which has prompted her to recently reveal her own true-life sexual abuse as a youngster growing up.
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1995: Retired from acting and moved to British Columbia, Canada, to devote herself to writing and raising a family.
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Is half Caucasian and half Chinese.
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In high school, everyone called Jennifer, Meg, and their younger sister Becky the Three Musketeers.
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Relationship with Colin Firth began while filming Milos Forman`s Valmont (1989).
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Was originally cast as Mozart`s wife in Amadeus (1984), but had to leave after tearing a ligament in her leg during a soccer game with her children one day before her shooting started.
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Sister of actress Jennifer Tilly
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Son, with Colin Firth, William Joseph Firth (b. 1990).
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Married 3 times.
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