Quotes by Meg Tilly

About Meg Tilly:

Meg Tilly is a Canadian-American actress and novelist. For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Psycho II (1983), The Big Chill (1983), Masquerade (1988), and Valmont (1989). For her lead role in the television series Bomb Girls (2012–13), she won a 2013 Leo Award. Tilly has written five novels, including Porcupine, which was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize. She is the sister of actress Jennifer Tilly.
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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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

I didn't plan to act, but I'm glad I'm doing it - and I just want to keep getting better.

Meg Tilly

Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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 obj...

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

Meg Tilly

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.

Meg Tilly

Author Bio

  • NameMeg Tilly
  • DescriptionAmerican-Canadian actress
  • BornFebruary 14, 1960
  • CountryUnited States Of America; Canada
  • ProfessionActor; Author; Novelist; Dancer