Tatiana Maslany Quotes

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

As an actor, I function from a place of compassion and empathy - you have to believe 100 percent what your character is doing, because otherwise it will look like it's not real.

The type of acting that I'm interested in, that I aspire to, is where I try and drag a lot of myself into whatever character it is. They can be very different types of characters, but at the heart of it, I always wanted to be a very, very believable and rooted in reality. One of the ways of doing that is to root it as much as you can in your own experiences and then tint those with different hues, different colors to give the different characters their way.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Our job is to represent the truth of human nature, whether you're playing a tender love story that's set in a coffee shop or whether you're in 'The Avengers,' which is set in a Manhattan which is exploding.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else, and nobody ever told me no, so I just followed it, and here I am, having a ton of fun.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

The big difference with Juliette and the others in that film is that she goes beyond acting.

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there.

I would really love to direct one day. I think there are certain actors who love the character and the performance and that's all they want to be a part of.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.