After you play a part, you think of it as your own.
And now both of my daughters - one is making a documentary and the other is about to start her independent movie, too.
But you base everything on people you know.
Getting a good role is hard for anyone.
I always do make a back story for myself, but I'm not sure how necessary it is. I just like to.
I can never have a poker face. Anybody looking at me can tell exactly what I'm thinking.
I just like to do something that I'm interested in. I don't want to spend any number of days doing something that I don't like.
I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.
I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.
I never look at my past work, movies or anything, because you can run them in your mind, every movie you've been in.
I think everybody has tried the Ouija board... I used to be into astrology and such, but then I got more fatalistic about things. I'd rather be surprised.
I think the ones that have the most difficulty are the glamour girls. I never played any glamour girls, so it wasn't a problem.
It was when A Woman Under the Influence played at the New York Film Festival. It would be hard to top that. It was one of the most extraordinary nights of my life.
People in independent film have a passion; they're not in it for the money.
The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.
Daughter of state legislator E.M. Rowlands (Assembly, 1927-1935; Senate, 1935-1939). Raised in Cambria, Wisconsin. Moved to Washington, D.C. in 1939, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942, and later to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Attended the University of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1950, when she left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Mother of Nick Cassavetes, Alexandra Cassavetes and Zoe R. Cassavetes .
She and John Cassavetes made 10 movies together: A Child Is Waiting (1963), Faces (1968/I), Gloria (1980), Love Streams (1984), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), Opening Night (1977), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Intoccabili, Gli (1968), Two-Minute Warning (1976) and Tempest (1982).
Sister of David Rowlands.
Her performance as Mabel Longhetti in _Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)_ is ranked #63 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Name rhymes with henna.
Has suppressed the first version of her husband's (John Cassavetes) film Shadows (1959) and will neither allow it to be shown, nor acknowledge its existence.
Favorite actress of Maggie Gyllenhaal.
As of 2007, she is one of six women, who have received Best Actress nominations for performances directed by their spouses. The other five are Frances McDormand for Fargo (1996), Joanne Woodward for Rachel, Rachel (1968), Julie Andrews for Victor Victoria (1982), Elisabeth Bergner for Escape Me Never (1935) and Jean Simmons for The Happy Ending (1969). Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in an Oscar-nominated performance (Pote tin Kyriaki (1960)), but they weren't married yet at the time of the nomination.
Grandmother of Sasha Cassavetes and Virginia Cassavetes.
Daughter of Lady Rowlands.
Mother-in-law of Heather Wahlquist.
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