Gina Torres Quotes

You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.

It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.

Making films can be absolutely fantastic, but it can also be incredibly dull. You spend the whole day sitting by yourself in your trailer and then you get called to deliver one sentence - then you're told to come back and do it again at 5:30 the following morning.

Movies are boring. It's like watching paint dry. I did a little role in a movie, and it was eight lines. I was there for three days. It's just horrible. Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it's 18 hours of doing not a thing.

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

I don't get much studio stuff. I'm usually on location, and I know that some people think that acting is so glamorous, but believe me, it's not!

Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!

I remember the first film I did, the lead actor would, in between scenes, be reading a newspaper or sleeping and I'd think, 'How can you do that?' But it's so exhausting, you can't be 'on' 12-14 hours a day.

Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting.

When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

I've always wanted to do acting. The biggest thing I ever did was 'The Dirty Dozen.' My contract was for three months, but the picture was taking longer to make than they thought it would. I stayed for seven months, and Frank Sinatra told me to leave. He said the public is very fickle and that they'll forget you.

Whenever you're working on a film or TV set, the hours are very, very long.

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

Acting is completely different from the standup world. You have these 12- or 14-hour days, but you have a great time doing it. It's like hanging out with your friends.

Casting is a big deal.

We were shooting for 'Aiyyaa' in Yash Raj studios, and I got an offer for 'Aurangzeb.' That's the only time I went for an audition.

Theater is structured. You're plugged into a system. It's relentless. You're expected to do certain things every day. You have your tasks.