Alexandra Daddario Quotes

The frustrating part of being a movie actor is waiting in your trailer to do two takes of a scene you've prepared for two months.

I'd always liked movies in a kind of naive way. They seemed no less improbable a career than anything else.

As an actor, I don't want to talk too much about my future films because this industry is such that even after half a film has been complete, it can be shelved.

No matter how much you plan and prepare, things can still go wrong.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

You can't do anything to a film post its release. I concentrate on working hard, giving the required inputs for the roles, having discussions with my directors and co-stars. It isn't possible to predict the fate of any film. I don't take failures to heart and successes to my head. These are part and parcel of this career.

But we have seen amazing things, good and bad, happen in this game, so you can never take anything for granted. I certainly don't. There are no guarantees, whether it is good bad or indifferent you just work hard to push the odds in your favour as regards myself and the team.

In the film industry you never really know if all the various ingredients will come together - sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't. As an actor, you don't have much control over those things. It's a director's medium in that sense. All you can really do is minimise the risks of being involved in something that might not work and look for something that also suits you.

That's one of the things of being an actor. You have to push any knowledge of any future, at all, out of your mind. You never know what's going to happen where.

The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.

Before I starred in 'Million Dollar Baby,' I wasn't really a boxer. I just worked hard to learn as much as I could before we were there on set.

I was saying to myself that I would love to try it once, just one time, to know what it's like to make a movie in Hollywood. I was so curious because most of my favorite directors were there. There's a history; there's a way of working.

I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.

No one in Hollywood really knows what a good idea is before a movie hits the screens. We only know if it's a good idea after it's done.

I connect much more with theatre actors than with cinema actors - insofar as you can speak of 'cinema actors' in Mexico, because there isn't a big film industry.

I always knew I wanted to be in films, but I did not know exactly what I wanted to do.

You can never expect things to happen like they did the last time. You still have to put in the work.

I'd guess that every American action film would be different. It's just training, training hard, training a lot. Then trying to give your best performance on the day, and I've been lucky so far.

Filmmaking involves a lot of money and hard work, which should not be wasted, though nobody knows which film will be a hit.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

I never planned my career in the film industry, in acting. Yes, I always liked acting, but never ever I thought it would be my profession. I wanted to study, since my family has an academic background.

Making movies is great. It was like love at first sight; a whole new, different business. I can see why actors love it so much.