Melanie Laurent Quotes

I did 'Damnation' on USA, and hopefully I keep picking up smaller roles and learn the craft.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I didn't study acting.

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

I started at drama school at 18.

My job is to act, whether in indie or mainstream films.

I am an actor and mouldable enough to do films like '2 States,' 'Gunday,' and 'Finding Fanny.'

I am not against it if someone does homework or workshops, but I came to the industry without any proper training. So I go according to what the director narrates to me.

Acting is acting at the end of the day. How does it matter if it is in films or on TV?

I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.

I had the acting bug from a very early age.

I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.

I was a kid who went to film school and fell into acting.

I actually started acting because I couldn't dance.

I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

Working with actors is something I've never done before. I find it tremendous. It's hard work.

I was offered a lot of supporting crazy parts in comedies because that's all I had done.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.