Amanda Fuller Quotes

'Star Trek' scared me a lot more than 'White Jazz.' It terrified me, really. Because of the scale, the responsibility, the fact that it was this iconic character. It was the bigger challenge, so I had to take it.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

When you're a comedic actor and you're used to just getting laughs, it's kind of scary to go serious, even for a second.

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

I'm often compared to Alan Rickman. I wish.

I have never emulated any star or celebrity completely, and I hope nobody does the same of me.

I'm definitely an actor first, but it's fun to kind of, you know, push your boundaries and see if you can do things that have scared you a little bit your whole life.

There's nobody taller and cooler than Will Smith. He's the coolest tall person, so I'm trying to be like that.

When 'Baby Come Naa' was offered to me, I found the script so mind-blowing that I had to gather the courage to perform or it would have been completely my loss.

I really respect versatile actors, so I'd really like to throw myself in the deep end.

Getting to work with Edie Falco and watching her be a quiet presence - but a very powerful presence - and so brilliant and free? That was the first person I saw where I was like, 'I want to emulate that.'

I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

I would watch movies on the couch in my house. If I saw a scene played by a woman or a man - it doesn't matter - a scene I really liked, I would right away run to the mirror and repeat it.

Kristin Chenoweth had been my personal idol since I was, like, 6 or 7.

I idolize my dad because he was such a hard worker.

I saw Rain dance on TV and decided that I wanted to sing and dance like him.

Not a lot of people get to meet their role model and idol in life, and I've been really lucky that way.

One of my heroes growing up was Darren Gough, he always made things happen and I wanted to be like him.

The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim. Amazing, obviously. She's been my idol since I re-enacted 'Titanic' and fell in love with Leo. And it's a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.

Playing the character of Arjun is a challenging task, and I like taking up challenges.

Getting to play a role that hasn't been played is such an honor.

My cousin Joe was just the coolest kid and I wanted to be like him. He had girls, could do whatever he wanted and he was a bricklayer, so I decided to do that.

It's very interesting because as an actor, you play a litany of different roles, but to play both of them within the same day multiple times, in quick successions, it's different and sort of a really rare opportunity that I was initially terrified by and a little bit daunted by.