Actress of a Certain Age Quotes

“I haven’t given up on God. I just look at God differently than I used to. Instead of seeing God as an old man in the sky or any kind of personified being, I now see God as hope. God is love and peace and sunsets and kindness. I know that sounds like a basic-B thing to say, but that is how I feel the presence of God.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“Our lives were like MTV’s The Real World if it had aired on Pax TV.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“Life is surprises, not deadlines or fooling yourself into thinking you need to stop wanting something to get the thing you want.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“Just as I had decided that hell didn’t exist, I also decided that the traditional interpretation of Christian doctrine was too staid and conservative. I started to think that Jesus was a badass, and I wanted to be one just like Him. I believed I was called by God to be an ordained minister to help change the systems of oppression in our world.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“I wasted my global pandemic!
What did I do with all that time?
I know I spent a lot of it watching people from old musicals reunite on Zoom, and sing songs in their bathrooms.
(They were always in their bathrooms. I guess for the acoustics... or maybe a nervous tummy?)

My husband watched all of this with me. One day, he asked me why their eyes looked so strange, and I realized, he didn't know what a ring light was!
(Can you imagine such an innocent time?)
I had to explain that a ring light is a ring-shaped light that illuminates your face fully without shadows to highlight your wrinkles.
Of course, it also makes you look possessed by the devil, but better that than admit you've aged, I guess.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“Sam Rosenthal,”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success

“But for me, reclaiming the church as a safe space is a wonderful gift in my life.”
― Jeff Hiller, Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success