Ruth Bradley Quotes

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.

What about Hong Chau? In typical supporting-part fashion, she shows up halfway through 'Downsizing,' already shrunk, an imperious Vietnamese house cleaner with a limp and sharp angles. The movie's satirical cleverness upstages its rage; then Ms. Chau proves she's capable of managing both.

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.

If a movie has three decent scenes and a decent character, I think, 'OK, at least they got that guy right.'

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

As an actor, you don't really have a say or a voice in what the conversation of the show is going to be. So, as an actor, I'm just trying to make sense of why the character is making these choices, and somehow, in that way, you can sympathize or root, at least not detest, what this person is doing. That's, at least, my job in telling that story.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

I like Rob Morgan in 'Mudbound.' Most of the attention being paid to this movie has focused on Rachel Morrison's cinematography and Mary J. Blige's stiff but intensely stoical performance.

As an actor, your first priority is the work - immersing yourself in the role, backstory, and bringing that to screen.

It's fun to explore behavior that you can't explore in your own life, so you fool around with it in acting.

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

As an actor, my job is not to always play characters who make everybody happy. That's not interesting.

There are all these great TV series; you can watch all these hours and hours of shows and ideas, but there's still something great about a movie that unfolds in a couple of hours, and you have the complete experience.

To me, great writing - and when you can really make something wonderful out of it as an actor - is when your character has a sense of self-awareness. It doesn't necessarily have to arc. It doesn't have to grow.

I've starred in many melodramas, but the reason 'Something in the Rain' is so special to me is that I feel like I'm living in reality.