Laurie Holden Quotes

It never occurred to me that it would be a big hit internationally and forever.

I'm more surprised than anyone that 'Spamalot's done so well. You can never predict what's going to be a hit.

Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.

When I booked 'Orange,' I thought things were going to change a little bit, and I'd be a little more busy, but obviously I underestimated it. I don't think anyone knew that my character would be taken to so well.

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.

I don't know why my shoes are so popular - I am always surprised and mystified by it.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

In a way, I'm kind of a bystander looking at this phenomenon that is ABBA, which is still around, and that I thought would be finished in 1981 and forgotten. I'm amazed how this could happen, and I don't know why it happened. I'm just grateful and humble. I just sit back and enjoy.

On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

Never in a million years did I think 'Game of Thrones' was going to take off like it did.

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

I think when 'Perfect Strangers' landed and was so well received, it was a magic moment.

We're kind of an international phenomenon.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

No, I don't think 'The Wire' screwed up my career at all. It's the only reason people have heard of me. It's only been a huge, huge, very fortunate bonus.

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

Sometimes you think the movie is good and BOOM! Sometimes you think it's no good. BAAM! The movie business is a big gamble. You never know.

There are some quite funny things about getting famous and stuff, but I think there comes a point where you have to think to yourself, "Well, am I doing this because I want to go to a party and meet Britney Spears? Or am I doing it because I want to create something that excites me?"

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

The light of the dawn is not so sweet as the first glimpses of fame.

I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

At some point in my life I would like to win a Grammy. I think that would be a good thing to do.