Jed Mercurio Quotes

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

We've never been squeaky-clean from the jump. We've never been Disney or Sesame Street, you know.

In my mind, everything is too sanitised on television - what is wrong with things going wrong?

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

I don't really do simple. I'm not really interested in simple at the end of the day, because nothing's ever simple, and nothing's ever perfect. People certainly aren't - I would hope, anyway, because that would be boring, wouldn't it?

No one is always right.

In everything finite there are accidental elements.

It is not new and it is not order.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

There is often better opportunity attached to fame, at least career-wise. But it's a flash. You can't control it. You can't depend on it.

The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.

A lot of times, real life is more surreal than writing.

Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.

We can't have a show where we only show the good parts and when things turn ugly, as life often does, we stop pack up our stuff, apologize to the millions watching, and just go home.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

I don't sing beautifully or grandly or in a very 'moving' way. I am me - which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.

I don't believe in perfect tennis or perfect matches.

I want more unpredictability. I want more realism. I think the fans would appreciate that, and that's what I've brought since day one.

Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

Remember, you're not always the professional.