The Actress Quotes

“Every time she felt her life could not grow stranger, something happened to make her think she had been wrong.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Lane kept trying to find her happiness in men, but it didn’t work. Is that something you relate to personally?”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“People were fascinated by the idea of someone pulling the wool over their eyes.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“You don’t know what it’s like to have to hide all the time.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Did he have Ruscha so he could pronounce “Ruscha”?”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Her marriage had been made. Everyone had known it but the bride.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“He was like Tennessee Williams, shooting three bull’s-eyes in a row, all with his blind eye.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“He had no interest in another person, in imagining what it might be like to be on the other side.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Alongside the need to be coupled is an equally compelling need to be left utterly alone.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“We are all a little bit despised. Aren’t we?”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“It seems your problem is the same one we all have. You don’t know if you are truly loved.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“I can’t tell you who he is. Why would I presume to know? I’m not Gay Yoda.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Labels are for cans,’ they say. If they do try a name on for size, ‘queer’ or ‘dyke’ or ‘fag,’ they rip it off the next day.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Her desire for him had been so great that she had been willing to accept a kind of lumpy half-love, flawed, temporal, and incomplete.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She wanted to be his more than she wanted him to be faithful.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She shouldn’t have napped. If you didn’t sleep, you didn’t dream.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She could always go back to hostessing. She knew how to show someone a seat.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She was a woman who thrived on danger, but when the danger ended, she couldn’t find a way to be happy.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Just because you admired someone didn’t mean he was your soul mate.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“made her feel flattened and worthless. His anger was like that lightning cloud rising above the dome in La Tempesta.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Hair-trigger temper, but he wept at Hallmark commercials.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She had a way of bringing out genuineness in the least genuine of people.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“they used merkins on shoots to avoid X ratings; prosthetic hair was an R, but real hair was an X.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She had been strapped into a roller coaster and the car had started to move. She could hear the irreversible clacking on the tracks.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“I would rather have a Hemingwayesque failure than a Juhaszian success.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“She loved the way you could transform the meaning of a scene with how you played it.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“I’m not an elitist. I just know how to read.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“Be interested, not interesting.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“the thing about Steven is, everyone wants him to fill the hole we have in our lives.”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress

“All Americans wrote better in Europe. They crossed the ocean, and every word they wrote was brilliant. “There’s someone at my door,” Maddy”
― Amy Sohn, The Actress