Kelly Lynch Quotations

You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

That's where I got my start and where I'll continue to work, but I can't tell you the number of films between Drugstore Cowboy and Curly Sue that I auditioned for and wanted that didn't choose me.

Well, for someone who looks like me you wonder where Alfred Hitchcock is.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

And sometimes I do films so my daughter can see me work.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

Cause I won't repeat myself, the way I dress and look.

I do come shackled with whatever people think I am.

I don't care what people's myths are about me.

I like to show as much of a woman as I can. I like to fill things out.

I mean, I always feel incredibly lucky to get a job.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.

In a collaborative environment directors hire actors because they want their input, not just their bodies.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

The least consideration of any film I've ever worked on is who is right for it.

Usually a writer has a particular point of view in a film, and you find that all the characters come in and out of this one tone and rhythm.

I think we're exploring this idea of the end of the American Empire, according to Hunter S. Thompson, and a lot of other things.

You learn your text and have it in the back of your head, without a thought as to how you're going to say it.

The worst thing would be for them to find out who I really am, because that's where I hide.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

My idols are all older.

You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

Well, I'm a consumer as well. I go to the movies with my popcorn and believe everything I see.