Tatiana Maslany Quotes

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

'Deadwood' was just a wonderful opportunity for me. Outside of my own things that I've written, I hadn't had the opportunity to play a character with that amount of depth and range.

I just look at the character and the arc of the character, and see if it's going to be challenging. We always want to challenge ourselves. That's the biggest thing that I look at. Is this going to be a challenge? Is this going to be something that I can try my best to create, that no one could see anyone else do?

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

I think 'Sightseers' was a bit of an epiphany, a massive learning curve, and it gave me loads of confidence to go out there, and also to create a female character which is completely unexpected and defies convention.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.

I don't mind finding these ugly sides to my personality and exaggerating them because that's something you can write towards.

I think sometimes actors are drawn to good television because you have more time to sell it, you have more time to shape a character, and to tell a story, and that's really appealing.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

An actor is like a piece of clay: you just keep moulding me. Even people who work with you every day want to put you in a little box.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

I look for characters that offer me opportunities to explore some aspect of the human condition. I think a lot of actors would say that and would look for that. I've been lucky enough to find projects that let me do that.

The idea of being on a show where each season stands alone, and you can come back the next year and show an entirely different aspect of your personality or your talent or your anything is an enormous gift that you rarely get in television.

I am fine playing 'Law & Order' and even the 'Jurassic' movies to be straight up, as far as the characters being portrayed there, but I never want to stay in straight-up land too long. I always wanted to do something where the character's world gets to be explored.

I sometimes improvise, and that's what I call 'massaging the character.'

There was a time during 'Gone Girl' that I'd come home, and I'd say, 'I get to be every part of being a woman in this role.' For me, I feel it much more as a springboard for the work I'm going to take on thereafter.

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

My character has to be alive. It can't be a mere prop, and it has to have a life of its own. I need to have that space to play around and the scope to interact with the people around me. That freedom would give me a lot of margin to improvise with.