Inga Cadranel Quotes

I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.

As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

No other entertainer in the world ever took the risks that Liberace took.

At home, I had seven brothers, one sister. I sewed clothes for my sister's dolls although she was grown and gone away. I was a weirdo but didn't think I was a weirdo.

I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.

I didn't have a father figure in the house.

People in Los Angeles are more used to acting silly than other people.

I grew up as the youngest child in a big, noisy family, and there was always someone around to hang out with.

I was always the flamboyant one and the one who wanted to be really bubbly and wanted to perform in a big way, but it's not very typical in Finland.

My overwhelming memory of my childhood is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight kids - five boys and three girls - plus my mom, Ruth.

I reached a point where nothing scares me in this industry, mainly because I grew up in it. My earliest memory is 4 years old, getting in a wrestling ring.

I went home and they seemed... my parents seemed normal. They didn't seem to feel like somehow they had been victims of some Nazi camp or something.

We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.

I came from a big family, with not enough attention. It's classic. I wasn't the baby, but was second to last. It's absolutely the same story that most people have in this [film] business, they're the middle children. I've encountered some people, and it's weird to me, that they were the youngest in their family. I don't understand how that works, they got the attention.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

[On being an actor] .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky.

There's one thing you can't download and that's a live performance. And I know how to put on a show, and enjoy performing, and I'll always have that.

I'm an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you're going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.

Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

It's a super super strange world when the actors are the less weird ones.