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2003-2008 Pure Talent: Jennifer Connelly. Pure Talent is strictly a fansite & is not in anyway associated
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"I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy."
"They needed some green space and quiet. I think it was more that that originally drew them to Woodstock than the spiritual sort of things that the town represented. Back then he got out of the garment business and bought a building, renovated it and turned it into a kind of arts center. (...) My mom stopped working because I started modeling, doing catalogs and that kind of thing, shortly thereafter."
- Explaining the family's circumstances
"I don't really know why, because I was shy. But I did department-store catalogs, and Danskin tights, you know? The kid on the package modeling the leotard and pretending I'm a ballerina?"
- On beginning to act
"I was an overly polite teenager, and it didn't serve me particularly well. I wanted to be good and be nice and be a peacemaker. I think it made me precocious on one level and stunted on another. I had my moments of frustration where I felt uncomfortable being looked at. I just thought, 'I'm not cut out for this. I don't want to be watched. I just want to disappear.'"
- Describing her film career of the 1980s
"I went a little overboard. I really had no balance. I pulled a lot of all-nighters in the library right off the bat and I didn't have a really strong social life. (...) I'd do a semester, leave, work, come back, that kind of thing. It was a strange time."
- Describing her Yale experience
"I remember when Career Opportunities came out there were these mechanical posters of me—literally, moveable cutouts of me on a rocking horse—that were around. I was mortified. I felt that I was representing a version of myself that I didn't feel connected to. Maybe that's why I went so overboard at college; because it was my place and I fought so hard to make it my own."
"As someone who had always wanted to make everyone happy and to not disappoint anyone, I really needed to go through a kind of emancipation and rebellion. It didn't happen for a few more years. I overdid school. I burned out. I got to a point where I felt very vulnerable and kind of raw, a little bit overexposed and unprotected."
"There came a time where I thought, I want to work, but is there a way where I don't have to be this figure that I seem to have become? I don't want to be it anymore. I wasn't making the right choices. I wasn't approaching things consciously. I was doing a movie because I wanted to be in Italy, or because so-and-so was in it and it sounded impressive. I felt like there was a disparity between the kinds of movies that I was doing and the films that I like to see."
"I had people in all corners saying, 'Why would you want to take this on?' And even, 'Don't do it.' But I had no hesitation. What it was talking about really resonated with me. I felt like it was talking about a lack of love from mother to child, and through that an inherited voracious hunger, a lack of self-respect, and a lack of trust in oneself and therefore in anyone else. It was talking about people being incapable of intimacy and living with so much fear that they wind up turning to some quantifiable, external substance to make themselves feel whole and sedated. I think you see this everywhere, and on all sorts of levels: food, TV, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, whatever. It seems like so many people are seeking peace in a self-destructive manner."
- On her role as Marion Silver in Requiem For A Dream
"I was a mess. By the end Russell was offering to pick up my snotty tissues off the floor."
- On A Beautiful Mind audition
"Russell has a very charismatic, strong personality which can be overbearing. I've seen a lot of people falter when trying to talk to him. I felt strongly about not letting that happen. Very few people knew how to manage Nash's eccentric behavior, and Alicia really did, so I felt that I really needed to embody that. [Russell] was kind of perfect training for me."
- On Russell Crowe
"Motherhood is the best work I've ever done."
"I began working when I hadn't yet come into my own, when I was this walking puppet."
"Some of the movies I did... I look back and cringe."
"I don't think I was this fantastic actress who was being neglected – I had the career I deserved at the time."
"I don't think I would be doing this quality of work if it hadn't been for my son. He's changed me. He's helped me to understand myself and find my place in the world."
"I have a very different existence at home that keeps me kind of out of the loop of how the politics in this industry works. So this is all kind of new to me."
- On her husband Paul Bettany
"He's become that sexy guy carrying the baby in a sling, which is very sweet. I remember one day, Paul and my son Kai were playing in my trailer and when I came back from make-up, they both had pillows attached to their heads and they were doing some turtle pirate game, jumping on the couches. He's fantastic with the kids and he's so full of love."
"He debunks everything, which I find really charming. He makes fun of himself, he makes fun of me, he makes fun of the world. He doesn't treat as precious things that don't deserve to be. He's like a mucky angel, just a little bit dirty."
"You should see my husband now. He's playing an athlete in this tennis movie. So he's been in the gym and he's suntanned. He's turned into a jock. I find it a bit disconcerting. He used to be pale and have a little belly. He was my little whiskey-drinking cheese eater."
- What her husband, Paul Bettany, says about her
"In A Beautiful Mind I was an imaginary person so she had to look right through me... which is how she treats me actually in real life."
"She's enormously ugly. What's brilliant about that is it makes me feel deep. When we are walking down the street and I see people are looking at us I know they are thinking: how did she snare him?"
On being told his wife had said she’d take his body any day, he replied, “She does take my body every day." (London premiere of Wimbledon)
NG: You married Jennifer Connelly. Ever look at her and think, "How did I manage to snag this gorgeous creature?"
PB: No, that's probably how she looks at me. She's very plain. It's all makeup.
"If everything went down the tubes in my life, I'd still wake up next to the prettiest woman on Earth."
"It really has nothing to do with sex. We haven't had sex. This whole baby was an accident with a towel. No, no, no... the sex is massively important," he says, leaning into the tape recorder. "Let's get that clear."
"She really supports me during my films and I try and undermine her during hers."
Thanks to paulbettany.net for some of the quotes.
