"I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas"
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Invoking Cancer, “the crab,” isn’t just a cute zodiac aside; it’s a cultural shorthand for a personality: protective, moody, home-oriented, sidling rather than charging. The crab likes the edge, the liminal zone where land meets water. Huston uses that symbol to justify an emotional geography: she’s drawn to the sea’s surface pleasures (texture, sparkle, the performative calm of waves) but wary of what depth implies (risk, loss of control, the unknown). “Actually” does work, too: it signals she’s correcting an assumption, nudging the listener away from some grand, poetic seafaring identity and toward something more specific and human.
Coming from an actress with a career built on composed intensity, the line reads like a miniature acting note: play the attraction, keep the exit visible. It’s celebrity candor at its most strategic - intimate, funny, and slightly armoured. She gives you the postcard, then quietly tells you where the shoreline ends.
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| Topic | Ocean & Sea |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Huston, Anjelica. (2026, January 16). I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-do-like-the-ocean-wave-actually-im-born-under-139001/
Chicago Style
Huston, Anjelica. "I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-do-like-the-ocean-wave-actually-im-born-under-139001/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal areas and sunny beaches and such - although not the wide-open and deep seas." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-do-like-the-ocean-wave-actually-im-born-under-139001/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.








