Dakota Blue Richards Quotes

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.

For an actor, to go to work every day is a really rare occurrence. You may work on a film for three months max, and then you're off, so you have to find another job and then work another three months.

Some people you work on a film with, and then they disappear.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.

In film, normally what happens is that not many people work more than once. Normally, it breaks couples. It doesn't make them.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

I think around that time I met David [Gordon Green] or, well, we all met at Superbad and Judd [Apatow] said, 'I'm thinking about having him direct [ Knocked Up].' Sounded like a good idea.

I've been blessed to work with some good people as well as different actors. So it's a blessing to be able to have friends who... the friendships are a result of projects that you've worked on together.

I'm such a fan of films and books like 'Lord of the Rings' and even 'Star Wars,' despite the fact that, as an actor, I'll never be employed by them.

Ever since I was 15, when I did my first movie by myself, where my mom wasn't there and I had a guardian, I got to know the crew, and I got to be part of a group and a family. I love that part of it, the friendships that you make.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it's really not solid.

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

As an actor, your life is constant ups and downs. My friends and I joke that when a job ends and nothing is lined up, you have nothing to do for the rest of your life. You just ride that wave.

There's a lot of great directors that I want to work with, but as soon as I mention them, I never get a chance to work with them.

I've actually had a great career in Hollywood. I've been a working actor my whole life.

I just want to grow as an actor and work with good directors.

Be it commercial or offbeat, I want to establish myself as an actress.

If you are part of good projects and working with good filmmakers, you will automatically get good roles.

I must have worked with over 100 actors, but I think there are four to five names I count on my fingers and say they are my friends.

I don't want to just be another actor in L.A. looking for a job.

Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.

This is the good thing about commercials, is one week I'm working with Derek Cianfrance and the next week I'm working with another really good friend.

Any time you work for Aaron Sorkin, your life as an actor is drastically improved.