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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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

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