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Illeana Douglas

"I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress."

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"I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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Donna Grant

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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Illeana Douglas
"In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting."

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Illeana Douglas
"It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding."

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Illeana Douglas
"I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films."

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Illeana Douglas
"I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action."

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Illeana Douglas
"I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had."

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Illeana Douglas
"When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had."

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Illeana Douglas
"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you."

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Illeana Douglas
"There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering."

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Illeana Douglas
"We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans."

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Illeana Douglas
"I met Patricia Neal, John Houseman. But I loved my grandfather because he was this kind, talented man."

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