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Quotes
I have these slumber parties with my father
and when we can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He
knows all about the good creams and masks.
{About her favorite smell] Those smells that
remind me of home. I can smell my dad [Steven Tyler] from a mile away. I
can smell it whenever he's worn my clothes. He has this ambery smell
that just melts into him.
[on playing Arwen in "Lord of the
Rings":] It wasn't until I came back home after such a long time
away that I realized how much hype there was about this. I get to play
someone 3,000 years old. I'm 23, so that's quite an acting challenge.
I've been told that if I'd lose weight I'd
have more work, but I refuse to submitmyself to those standards. To the
rest of the world, I'm slim, and I like the way I am.
When I did Stealing Beauty (1996), I was
just a kid. I'd done a couple of movies, but I'd never been to an acting
class in my life. But what I took away from it more than anything was
the sense that, even though I was the central character, it was my job
to get completely lost in the film. I had a real awareness of Bernardo
Bertolucci as a filmmaker, not just a director, painting a canvas in
which I was just one element.
Subtlety is my favourite thing in cinema. It
lets you dream. When everything is on the nail and on show, it leaves no
questions in your mind. I find that so boring.
Clothes have become too important and films
are saturated with fashion. So you find yourself wearing designer
clothes that aren't relevant to your character. I'm always so intrigued
by Christopher Guest and his movies, like Best in Show (2000) and A
Mighty Wind (2003). He hires the actors and they all come up with the
story and the concept, improvise. And they are all responsible for their
own hair and make-up. They buy their own clothes, are in control of
creating their characters. I would love to do that.
Life excites me. I'm not talking about
appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, normal,
everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I
find it all exciting, you know?
I don't live a very posh life. There are no
drivers waiting or people doing everything for me. I pretty much live
like a normal person. . . . It's not good to have a life without
responsibilities, you know?.
It's cool to be compared to her [Elizabeth
Taylor], but honestly who gives a damn?.
There were times when I would get mad at him
(Viggo Mortensen) because he would push me harder. There was a weekend
when I got really sick and had a horrible flu, and that was my one and
only day to sleep and recover and not work. We were supposed to go
horseback riding together and I cancelled it because I wasn't feeling
well, and Viggo gave me a really hard time about it. So I went, and it
was one of the greatest days of my life. It was actually the one time,
while I was riding, that I really broke through to the other side with
the canter and becoming more comfortable on the horse. I had a beautiful
day and am incredibly grateful to Viggo for pushing me further. He
taught me so much about that, about really being willing to submit and
submerge yourself into making the film and the character work.
Armageddon was not an
acting experience. That's why I was depressed. It was about the effects
and not about the performances. I had the really rough part of being the
emotional person who's like, you know, upset all the time.
I
am scared of becoming a mother.
I
believe that a family is very important. You must have someone to come
to after work to forget the stressful day. With Roy I have someone like
that.
I
cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're
young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
I
don't want to spend so much time obsessing about myself. I love to cook
and I love to eat. And yet, if I am not careful, I could be considered
chubby in the film business. That's why it is great for me not to live
in Hollywood. I love to go to the country where I can wear my pajamas
all day long if I want.
I
have these slumber parties with my father [Steve Tyler], and when we
can't sleep we stay up all night trading beauty tips. He knows all about
the good creams and masks.
I
have these slumber parties with my father where we stay up all night
trading beauty tips. He knows all about the good creams and masks.
Love
what I do and I have no regrets, but the people I care about are by far
the most important thing. I would kill for them. They make my life worth
living.
Sure,
my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented
our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not
this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.
The
age I'm at now, you go from being a young girl to suddenly you blossom
into a woman. You ripen, you know? And then you start to rot.
There's
pressure all the time. It's stressful going to a premiere and having to
look perfect, and everybody scrutinizes what you're wearing. It's scary.
There's so much emphasis put on the physical.
When
I started acting, the press would describe me as 'ex-supermodel Liv
Tyler'. But I was never a supermodel! Let me make this very clear. I did
Seventeen magazine. I didn't do anything major, ever. I was just a kid
in school, and sometimes I would do a photo-shoot on the weekends.
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