Author: Yvette Mimieux

Quotes

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

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'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

- Yvette Mimieux

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

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

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

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