Kelly McGillis Quotes

• Love isn’t intellectual – it’s visceral.

  Kelly McGillis

  Topics in Love

• Life is a journey and it’s about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

  Kelly McGillis

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Growing, Journey

• I think it’s sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.

  Kelly McGillis

  Topics in Art, Movies

  Tags in Hope

• For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn’t. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

  Kelly McGillis

  Topics in Anger

  Tags in Time, Long

• Tom and I didn’t have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.

  Kelly McGillis

• To me, acting is acting… I’d be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.

  Kelly McGillis

• I have not had a drink for four years, which for me is a long time.

  Kelly McGillis

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  I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow.

   

  Kelly McGillis

• By not coming forward (about rape), you make yourself a victim forever.

  Kelly McGillis

Kelly McGillis (9)

Birth:	9th July, 1957
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Kelly Ann McGillis is an American actress. She found fame for her roles in several films throughout the 1980s including her roles as Rachel Lapp in Witness for which she received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, Charlie in Top Gun and Kathryn Murphy in The Accused. After her appearance in Cat Chaser, she was discouraged from acting and took a break for a few years.

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