Diana Penty Quotes

I would rather do movies because I'm very lazy and the hours are much easier.

I like working in both movies and television. Television is faster, not very much rehearsal and a lot of material is shot in a day. Big budget movies are luxurious in terms of the schedule. Independent films often shoot fast as well.

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I would rather make feature movies because, let's face it, you take more time. You take seven days to do a show, and you take three or four months to do a movie.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

I like working on big budget films.

I suppose the most fun I had was on the second film.

For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.

I did a film very quickly, and then a lot of work for television, and then I did stage work.

I would love to be a part of an interesting, entertaining film in which I shine like never before.

When I was shooting 'Okja,' that was my first time actually seeing a trailer for actors.

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.

I loved being on set when I was younger.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.

A day on a film set is maddening.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.