Madeleine Stowe Quotes

If I'm not going to get a part, tell me why.

Prior to going to college, I had a pretty strong accent, and that was one of the things I had to work on a lot. I went to North Carolina School of the Arts; my speech teacher... that was one of the things we really had to work on over the years, and thankfully I think it finally worked.

I work with accent coaches a lot and try to do my best to get the Australian out of there.

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

Don't talk about writing. Write. Don't show unfinished work to anyone. Don't show finished work to non-writers. Get your opinions, not from friends and family, but by sending your work out to editors. An endless stream of rejection slips means you need to learn more. So learn more.

If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

Someday, I'll make a movie with a British accent.

Four hours of prosthetics every morning, the jowls and the nose, and it was very hot so they're having to attend to it all day, and you're still petrified of so many things, such as, can I speak properly? Hitchcock never quite lost those East End vowels, even though he had the softened California consonants.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

It's easy to become very self-critical when you're an actor. Then you get critiqued by the critics. Whether you agree with them or not, people are passing judgment on you.

It can get a bit boring working on accents.

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

If someone criticizes my acting, they may be right.

When I started acting, I used to read all the reviews.

Everything that Michael Fassbender touches is elevated.

Michael Hogan is an absolutely brilliant actor, so anytime I get to work with someone of that caliber, I get excited.

I'm quite loud. When I was in film and TV, people were always saying, 'Oh Kelly, make it smaller, make it smaller.'