Christine Lahti
Christine Lahti
Christine Ann Lahtiis an American actress and film director. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1984 film Swing Shift. Her other film roles include ...And Justice for All, Housekeeping, Running on Empty, and Leaving Normal. For her directorial debut with the 1995 short film Lieberman in Love, she won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film...
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth4 April 1950
CityBirmingham, MI
bring character home work
I used to take my work home with me before I had children. I don't do that now; I do my work and never bring the character home.
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You know what's weird is that we all parent the way we were parented. Sometimes I find myself saying just the things I hated to hear my mother say.
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Movie makers are now finding roles that are more apt to older actresses. They see the talent and they want to put it to best use.
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What was exciting was to really go beneath the surface and see what makes a person insulting, mean and abusive... especially to ones own child.
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The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover.
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And that's why I chose on purpose not to have a death scene. We've seen them in a million movies and it's too much like cranking the tears out. I didn't want that scene.
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I try to eat low-fat, but once a week I'll have a major dessert or an oily pasta. Mostly I eat fresh fruits and vegetables, chicken and fish.
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Also, I thought the writing, on Chicago Hope in particular, was far superior to a lot of the feature-film scripts that I had been getting anyway.
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I was a gypsy my whole life, until I did this series. For the first time I can stay home. The studio's only 20 minutes from my house.
body except lifting normally work
I also do push-ups when I can, but I normally don't work out my upper body except when I'm lifting my kids, which usually is enough!
thinking hollywood enough
Each time I get off a plane in Hollywood, I don't think I'm pretty enough.
careers choices actresses
It was not really a career choice that I had to make. It was something I knew right from the beginning. I had to be an actress... period.
jobs small-jobs
I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.
thinking different film
I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.