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Michelle Phillips
10 quotes
“I didn’t feel comfortable with American children. I certainly knew more about sex and drugs by the time I was eleven than they would ever know. My father used to ask me when I was thirteen if I needed a diaphragm. I said, ‘No, Dad, really, I’m still a virgin.’ He said, ‘you let me know when you’re not.'”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On returning to California after having spent her early childhood in Mexico City, Rolling Stone no. 259 (February 23, 1978)
“I like what’s happening to me now in every way. When you’re twenty, you handle it a lot differently than when you’re thirty—and I’m thirty-three. I was naïve enough to think it would be easy to get here. It wasn’t.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On maturing, Rolling Stone no. 259 (February 23, 1978)
“I don't consider psychedelics hard drugs, [but] I also don't recommend that people take [them]. I think it's something that you either did in the sixties, or you just forget about it.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On drug use, Regis Philbin's Lifestyles (1986)
“Cass gained a lot of strength from her public. Once she was a star, she wasn't afraid of anybody, and certainly not me.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Cass Elliot, Regis Philbin's Lifestyles (1986)
“I was raised to be very independent. I was raised to believe I could do anything I wanted with my life. My father said I was lucky to be born a woman because "women can do anything they want" with their lives. Of course, I didn't realize until later that my father was giving me a slightly unrealistic view, but I think that [it] gave me a lot of confidence.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her upbringing, The Arsenio Hall Show (1991)
“I've always had a reputation as the pretty girl. Pretty girls rarely get the good parts. We all have to do a film like The Burning Bed where we can really be degraded so that people think we can act.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chicago Tribune (July 5, 1986)
“We toured in a Lear jet and that's the only way to fly, baby! Success is a bubble, though, and we knew the wonderful time we were having couldn't possibly last.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the success of the Mamas & the Papas, The National (January 5, 2011)
“People assume that there must have been tension between us, but the truth is I wanted to be just like Cass. Cass liberated me; she stopped John [Phillips] trying to have too much control over me. She taught me a lot about feminism, and she always encouraged me, although I was obviously inferior to her as a singer.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her relationship with Cass Elliot, The National (January 5, 2011)
“I was so lucky to have been surrounded by really great actors. Everybody in that movie was a real actor: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman, Richard Dreyfuss, Harry Dean Stanton. It was just a wonderful, wonderful experience for me and I had so much support and so much help and so much encouragement.”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her first acting role in Dillinger (1973), The Huffington Post (August 25, 2016)
“I would not let her work until she was eighteen, and believe me, since the time she was being strolled down the street in her stroller, people were saying, “Can I use her in my commercial? Can I put her in my movie?” “No!” But I did let her take any class that she wanted to take. Singing, acting, dancing...”
Michelle Phillips (born 1944) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On raising her daughter, Chynna Philips, The Huffington Post (August 25, 2016)