Author: Yvette Mimieux

Quotes

Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level when shooting scenes over and over again.

Stage acting lets you feel the character a little better, but in the movies, you have to keep regenerating your energy level when shooting scenes over and over again.

- Yvette Mimieux

I believe women should be feminine.

I believe women should be feminine.

- Yvette Mimieux

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done.

- Yvette Mimieux

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

Like many other tourists, I'm afraid I fell in love with Paris at first sight.

- Yvette Mimieux

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

Most parts for women have them reacting to something a man has done. Women never instigate any action; they only react it. We women have become accustomed to doing that.

- Yvette Mimieux

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

I'd been acting since I was a teenager. I'd come to the point where I was writing my own movies of the week for TV. That was fun.

- Yvette Mimieux

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

- Yvette Mimieux

I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

I don't like to tell my age. Not because of vanity, but because in 10 years when I look 37, producers will think I'm too old for some parts.

- Yvette Mimieux

There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.

There's no reason women in their late 30s and 40s shouldn't be thought of sexually.

- Yvette Mimieux

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