Meg Tilly
Meg Tilly
Meg Tillyis a Canadian–American actress and novelist. For her role in the 1985 film Agnes of God, she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her other film roles include Psycho II, The Big Chill, Masquerade, and Valmont. For her lead role in the television series Bomb Girls, she won a 2013 Leo Award. Tilly has written five novels, including Porcupine, which was a finalist for the Sheila A. Egoff Children's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth14 February 1960
CityLong Beach, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
I know that in order to be considered successful, youre supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.
I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasnt important to look exactly right.
I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when Im contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object.
I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.
Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first.
I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone.
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.
I'm the type of person who likes to know exactly how many steps she will have to take and when she should look up.
Now I feel like one of those Rodeo riders. I'm on top of a wild horse that won't stop jumping and kicking, and it is really exciting but I grab on to his ears and his mane and I'm screaming. The result is fun, but it's also scary!
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
I have a lot of male friends. That's good. But that's all I want right now. Keep that sort of thing away from me.
For a marriage to work, for a relationship to work, it requires commitment and a lot of work. There are times when it's not so great, and times when it is. But there has to be more better times than worse. In Canada, I'm the only one of my friends not married. In Los Angeles, I'm a success story. I've had two long relationships. And I'm OK.
I didn't start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.