Emilia Fox Quotes

I don't get called very often to play innocents.

I've been lucky to play characters that are really broad.

I do always feel very proud and flattered by being asked to be a part of American productions playing American characters.

It is so fantastic being an actress because you have the chance to be a thousand different people when you act.

I just have so much fun playing bad girl roles. Getting to say things that in life you would never ordinarily say, there's something really liberating about that. It's fun.

When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.

There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.

Yeah, I do feel badly sometimes, not for whose coming up and getting roles I'm not right for anymore but the people I compete with, who range from Uma Thurman on up.

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

I played a real nasty little girl but most of the roles I had up until then were very sweet and very nice.

I've only ever done out-and-out serious roles. I've played, like, five serial killers.

Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.

I love playing odd roles.

I did this role in Life Goes On as an HIV positive character and so emotionally that was the most challenging.

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

I love the characters I've had the opportunity to play.

I never played an ingenue.

Everyone's like, 'Oh my God, can I ask you something? You were in 'Percy Jackson,' right?' I'm like, 'No, different guy.'

I don't really know if I'm writing the kind of roles that Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore would play. Jessica Lange on 'American Horror Story' is a little bit more my cup of tea.

The best part of working on 'Baywatch' is to be the villain of the movie. I don't think The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, has ever had anyone who's been mean to him.

I'd love to do something on 'Mad Men.' Or play Peter Dinklage's cousin on 'Game of Thrones.' That would be fun.

Typecasting is really rampant in Hollywood, and because I played a costumed character and did it successfully, it was a real stigma.

There was a little of this, 'Oh, you're such a sweet girl!' That's a wonderful thing to have in life; I don't mind it at all for life. But I remember, the first role I was ever cast in as a not-so-sweet-girl, I was so happy.

I loved playing Emma Pillsbury so much.

I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.