Alice Eve Quotes

It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!

I would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home.

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

When I was a kid, it was a little bit exciting working with Peter Weir and Robin Williams, but that faded pretty quickly for me.

As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been a part of it. I think a lot of people associate me with the west because of Sundance.

I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.

When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head.

I've actually done three pilots for Disney. I met with the network when I was 16 years old and had just started acting. I would fly to Los Angeles to film pilots, then fly back to Dallas, where I grew up.

I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.

I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron.

I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness.

I wish I had never left England

I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.

Rather than missing home when I'm on tour, I miss tour when I'm at home.

If I'd been an actor in the 1940s, I would have been in fashion.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

I miss Italy; that's beyond doubt.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.

Of course being in movies is very exciting, and it's a wonderful thing for an actor to do.

When I was filming 'Premium Rush' in N.Y.C., I flew to L.A. to have a few general meetings. I sat down with Peter Cramer at Universal Studios and spoke about my life and career, and being that I'm such a goof, we spoke about how I really wanted to do a comedy next.

When you're abroad, you always miss your country.