top of page
"I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Thought quotes

"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."

"Never underestimate the power of a simple thought."

"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."

"In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social."

"You are not a human being, but you are a thinking and dreaming machine."
Explore more quotes by Donna Mills

"A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing."

"My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years."

"Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter."

"I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using."

"I kept bugging them about making it more upscale, because I felt Abby, through her cleverness and business sense, was a character who would move up. And that's what she did."

"Early on in my career, I'd go into the makeup trailer, and they'd spend an hour doing my makeup, and I would hate it. I'd go into the bathroom, wash it off and start over again, which took an enormous amount of time. So I just started doing it myself."

"I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant."
bottom of page