Chloe Sevigny Quotes

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I have ever had so I prefer that just in terms of fun factor.

Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.

It's a dream to be able to just play a multi-faceted character.

I would love to do anything involving a good strong character, whether it's in film, TV or theatre. My dream role's already been taken by Keira Knightley in 'Pride and Prejudice.' Growing up, I really wanted to be Lizzie Bennett.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

I'd like to do Glinda in a movie of 'Wicked.' That'd be my dream.

I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.

A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.

I've always wanted to be on a soap opera.

I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.

I saw Gosling just kill it in 'Blue Valentine.' I thought he was just amazing at that, and I wouldn't mind maybe doing something like that.

I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

Drama's unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy.

I've done a lot of period drama before. A lot of my jobs have been that.

I love doing the nighttime soap, the emotional, psychological, hard stuff that I got to tackle on 'Hannibal.'

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.

I love attempting to play real people. I like to try and have dramatic moments as well as comedic moments, and my favorite thing is when those two lines are blurred.

It's my dream to play Ratna Pathak Shah's daughter in a film.

With comedy, I've always had a pretty good sense of what I like and how to execute it well, but drama has its own rules.

I would love to play a Bond Girl one day, but I'd also love to work on a project as challenging and heartfelt as 'Room.'