Madeleine Stowe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Daniel was a wonderful and trustworthy partner. And a fine prankster as well.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Wonderful #Trustworthy #Pranksters
I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#People #Needs #Actors
My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Home #Race #Long
Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Marriage #Finals #Proposal
I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Feelings #Gentleman #Experience
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Character #Eye #Wicked
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Morning #Laughter #Believe
In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Pieces #Scripts #Action
I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Beautiful #Support #Lines
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Inspiration #Thinking #Different
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Stupid #Character #Talking
He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Real #Hair #Issues
The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Kissing #Firsts #Peculiar
I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Daughter #Mother #One Day
A lot of people in the movie industry tend to run and hide from it like ostriches. Movie industry people are definitely in denial right now, but you do become desensitized to violence when you see it on the screen so often. Let's face it, violence exists for one reason in movies, and that's to get an effect, create an emotion, sell tickets. - on the link between movies and school violence.
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Running #School #Ostriches
After you have a kid you're just so happy to be alive!
-- Madeleine Stowe

#Kids #Alive #Happy To Be Alive

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