Anne Heche Quotations

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

I have been very clear to everybody that just because I'm getting married does not mean I call myself a straight

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

I do not believe that I fell in love with a woman because I was abused.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not

I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.

The decisions that Ellen made on her show were between her and her producers. I supported her decisions. I was there to hug her when she got home.

I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex

When I was with Ellen, I was telling people, If you come out, it's gonna be better for you. But I honestly don't know that.

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is.

Of all ways to do a remake, ... I think Gus chose the most incredible way, because what he's saying is 'I honor you.' This is like more praise to Hitchcock than anybody who would take another film, and remake it, and try to make it different. Gus is saying, 'Not only am I not going to make it different, I'm going to honor you every step of the way.'

I wish I could say there was some big fear of mine after that, but the whole three and a half days that it took to shoot were just hilarious, and I heard that Janet Leigh had this thing where she wouldn't take a shower after that, but I actually came home and took a shower,

But that kind of went along with the imagery, for me, of the bird, the flightiness, the lightness, the light-footedness. So we literally timed out that scene in one shot to be the same exact timing as what Hitchcock and Janet Leigh had originally done, down to where she puts the money.

Most of my escapades were getting my Labrador dog into the back of my car to drive to Brooklyn where I worked at Avenue M Studios shooting a soap opera and battling being a 17 to 18-year-old playing twins being afraid that I was going to get fired, because who wouldn't fire me? I had no idea what I was doing.

Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.

The broader your audience, the more people you have to appeal to.

I was raised to pretend.

I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.

Some people like to hear and not see, so we have the radio. There are so many different ways that we can get and participate in the arts.

I think it's always hard for children to talk about abuse because it is only memory. I didn't carry around a tape recorder ... I didn't chisel anything in stone ... Anybody can look and say, 'Well how do you know for sure?' And that's one of the most painful things about it. You don't.

I have given money to the Obama campaign online and now they bombard me with emails every day. Why did I do that online? Why didn't I just walk into an office?

He raped me ... he fondled me, he put me on all fours, and had sex with me,

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

I'm not crazy, but it's a crazy life. I was raised in a crazy family and it took 31 years to get the crazy out of me.

I've always kind of gone with my heart.

We're in a world where every single movie, if it has a woman in it, is usually wrapped around the woman wanting to be liked in some way, either in her life, or she's young, she's an ingenue, she's a hero, she's the lover of somebody, she's the grandmother, she's a chef.

What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.

I do know something. Just not with any certainty.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

What Norman Bates calls for is for an actor to be able to go into their insanity, ... Vince is one of the few people I think who's willing to go into that duplicity in himself, and that insanity, and say, 'You know what? Now I'll show it to you.' I think that we're going to love his Norman Bates, because he's showing you himself in ways that nobody else would have the courage to do. It's an amazing performance.

This Nonsense about my mother praying for me is really making me angry. My mother never approved of my relationship with Ellen. Her hatred for our relationship is one of the many things that ultimately led to my breaking off all communication with her. (My mother, that is, not Ellen.)

Ellen and I had a three and a half year relationship that ended sadly, not because we were both women, but because we both wanted different things for our lives,

The whole shooting process of 'Psycho' was amazing in that way, because I felt like I had been chosen to remake history,

The therapists didn't know, ... The therapists knew about my abuse. The therapists knew about the shame I was enduring. ... But the therapists never knew the extent of the world that I created to get out of the shame of my abuse.

It's the same scene, but because it's in color, certainly it has a little more of the shock value,

I wanted to talk about stuff that people don't talk about so that maybe they would talk about it, ... So ... maybe they could save themselves from going crazy.

I loved the character, but the challenge, to me, became making this character exactly new and modern in exactly the same behavior and language that was already done, ... Because she wanted to be married, she wanted to risk everything to be with this man, and oftentimes, women are so willing to give and give and give and give, and actually receive so little. And this guy comes in once every couple of weeks and has sex with her in a motel room. This is not a guy to steal $400,000 for.

He's the guy who is every woman's dream and the man who's every man's dream.

By the end of the movie, we decided we weren't even actors, ... You know, we're just kind of people who go in and transform into a story, and hope that it touches people. We're both emotional people, and let's just see where this goes, and hope that it's truthful.

You know, so many things get redone -- music gets remade, Shakespeare gets remade,

And as a child, we have such a wonderful thing as children, that we can just make the best of everything, and say, Well, this must be what everybody else is experiencing, and I've got to make the best of it. You don't know that it's not good until you witness something that it seems better.