Joey Soloway Quotes

I'm a much better actor as a girl than I was as a guy.

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that's why I've been around so many men. I've always been a tomboy. And any man that knows me will tell you I'm not a girly girl.

I really love Robert Duvall, who I think is maybe the best American actor. I love Robert Duvall because the ability that he has to change and do the most amazing work.

If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.

The biggest compliment I can ever get as an actor is to have someone say, 'We didn't recognize you.'

I wasn't like a girly girl. I was a tomboy.

An actress can only play a woman. I'm an actor, I can play anything.

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

A lot of good actors tend to be quite introverted as people.

I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don't know why - I guess it's my job.

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.

Some actors, they have to carry this macho, very masculine element to them, but it's difficult for me to understand that.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

Michael Fassbender is just a creative force: he finds authenticity in singularity with what he brings, and it's always authentic. He doesn't try to be creative and different for the sake of it.

I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

I get the male thing. I like being that for a woman. But I also like being a woman, too. I like being girly.

I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.

I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It's all immersive, and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion. I don't really like to wear wigs in movies because I like to look like the character all the time.

All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.