Joey Lauren Adams Quotes & Sayings

“I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.”

“I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.”

“My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.”

“I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.”

“A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.”

“Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.”

“I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.”

“The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.”

“I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.”

“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.”