Tatiana Maslany Quotes

I feel like I'm kind of faking something if I'm talking as myself and putting on an accent.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.

It's exhausting trying to impress someone and be a version of yourself that might be attractive to them.

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Weirdly, when I'm playing an English person, I feel like I've got nothing to hang on to, and it feels a bit strange and exposing.

I still see myself on TV and think, 'Oh my God, I'm on a television, and there are millions of people watching,' and I get really nervous and embarrassed and insecure.

It's so funny how it's impossible for an American actor to play an English part or an Australian part. But by all means, come and bastardize our accent as much as you want.

I suppose, back in the day, when I was on the stage, I had nothing to lose, and I did the accents.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

I'm not really the type of person that can sit and watch my own performances.

Deep down inside, I do feel, at times, that I have to prove to people that I'm actually an artist.

I would be criticized, like, 'You don't talk Korean enough. You sound very American. You sound very white in your music.' And I'm like, 'Whoa.'

In the initial stages of my career, I was actually hiding behind a mask to hide who I was, but I was getting frustrated. I wasn't getting better bookings; I wasn't competing at bigger events.

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

When I went into high school, I don't know why - because I've been performing since I was little - but I think it was just the pressure of being somewhere so different, and I already stood out because I had an accent, and everyone always wanted you to talk, that I kind of shied away from singing a bit.

I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.