Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

Every experience makes you grow.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

When you get into your 40s, it's all about lighting. It's hard. You have to face whether the way you look is your self-worth or not. Once you get beyond that, it's all about what's in your heart.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I feel like my first conversation with someone, I really get a good feeling about who that person is and mainly about how open they are.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

The hard thing about 'The Saint' was that my character was supposed to die, but then they reshot the ending based on tests and she lives. I created the character based on her dying - she would never have been as innocent otherwise. So I didn't have high expectations for that film.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I have worked with another first-time director who was not that open, and it was probably one of the worst experiences I ever had, so my antennas are really out.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

The darker, more complex and emotional the part is, the easier it is for me. But I don't take any of that stuff home with me at the end of the day.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue

People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the '80s, they got away with some of those too.