Tatiana Maslany Quotes

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

It's wild to be seen differently and have more visibility, but it's rewarding.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

I've learned a lot about the limits of what I can do, as an artist, or what I'm willing to do. It's a lot of responsibility to carry a show and to speak to people on different levels.

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

We're living in a world where the response is really instantaneous, even though it's delayed by a few months. It comes at you pretty fast.

Going back is a nice way to give definition to each of the characters because they are so vastly different. I would never want them to get blended together.

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.

Film has always been where my heart is.

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.

My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

I'm an actor and I like having attention. There's a reason I like being on stage and in front of the camera, and it's that interaction.

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work.

As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.

All the foundation work you plant in the early seasons pay off in stronger storylines deep into our seasons. I think that only aids in performance.

I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep.

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people.

I'm running on adrenalin when we're shooting. It's non-stop. As soon as I have time to sit down, then I fall asleep.

Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance is like another layer to things.

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

I would love to work with Gena Rowlands. I just don't know in what capacity. I'd play her daughter or granddaughter, or whatever. I would just love to work with her, in whatever capacity.

I'm super sad to have it finish because it's been such a dream job, but it's nice to know there's a conclusion.

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.