Elisabeth Shue's Profile
Brief about Elisabeth Shue: By info that we know Elisabeth Shue was born at 1963-06-10. And also Elisabeth Shue is American Actress.
Some Elisabeth Shue's quotes. Goto "Elisabeth Shue's quotation" section for more.I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.
Tags: Age, Life, MomentI want to be involved with young people in some way. Teenagers. Because that's the most vulnerable time. I have a fantasy of becoming a teacher one day.
Tags: Teacher, Time, YoungI was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.
Tags: Done, Happy, ShowI was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.
Tags: Learn, Women, YoungLike, that was weird in 'Hamlet 2,' because I played myself there, fully myself, but then I realized, 'Oh, I'm not playing myself. I'm some weird version of myself.' So as an actress, you're always playing something, I don't even know who I am, how could I become me? I don't know what that is.
Tags: Become, Playing, WeirdMy mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.
Tags: Men, Women, WorkPeople love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.
Tags: Love, Movies, TimeRobert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
Tags: Politics, Power, SocietyThe hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.
Tags: Character, Die, HardThe movie I'm really excited about that I had really fun doing is 'Feed the Dog.' It's with Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. It's really fun. It's raunchy, like 'Superbad' meets 'Risky Business,' kind of. I got to be a really fun character, an out-there Mrs. Robinson-type character. I get to seduce Nat.
Tags: Business, Character, FunToday I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure.
Tags: Read, Realize, TodayWhat keeps this industry challenging as an actor is that you never know how something will turn out. The ups and downs are constant. You're never just smoothly sailing along. You're always going to be on loose footing. That's what ultimately now I expect and accept and that doesn't scare me as much.
Tags: Accept, Actor, ExpectI understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
Tags: Life, Love, StrengthI don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.
Tags: Anymore, High, MaybeIt would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
Tags: Human, Loneliness, TodayWhen you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.
Tags: Hard, Heart, OnceEvery experience makes you grow.
Tags: Experience, Grow, MakesGrowing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
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