"It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive"
- Joey Lauren Adams
About this Quote
In this quote, Joey Lauren Adams expresses her disappointment with being typecast as the "sweetheart" in Hollywood. She describes that it is a terrible sensation to continuously be waiting for a script to come her way, as if she has no control over her profession. Adams wants to take a more proactive technique to her acting career, instead of just waiting on opportunities to come to her. This quote highlights the difficulties and restrictions that actors, especially women, face in the show business. It also showcases Adams' decision to break out of the stereotypical roles and organize her own profession.
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"I really enjoy having sex, and that's offensive to some people. Women are the quickest to call other women sluts, which is sad. I haven't met a lot of men who've said, "You like having sex? What a dirty whore you are!". That's because they wish their wives or girlfriends would have more sex with them"
"I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should"
"He asked my girlfriend if we could come over and sing some of the songs that we had written, which we did. After he heard the songs, he said that he knew someone in the record business by the name of Bob Shad"
"I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends"
