Author: Yvette Mimieux

Quotes

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

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

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

Women are good at emotional things. We are emotional people. It is much harder to be cold and unemotional.

- Yvette Mimieux

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

I've been painting all my life, and I'm serious about it. I use it as more or less an outlet.

- Yvette Mimieux

I believe women should be feminine.

I believe women should be feminine.

- Yvette Mimieux

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

I decided I didn't want to have a totally public life. When the fan magazines started wanting to take pictures of me making sandwiches for my husband, I said no.

- 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

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

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

It's not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas.

- Yvette Mimieux

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