Robin Tunney Quotes

A lot of people didn't realize that I acted before I did anything else.

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.

The audience's reaction is the most rewarding thing for an actor, especially me.

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

You put it out there, you go film it, you go write it, you go record it... but the fans are the ones who decide it.

By early 1971, I had been acting professionally for 18 months - theatre work and my first telly, an episode of 'Dr. Who.'

I wouldn't say that I haven't got my fair share of good roles. This industry has been very kind to me.

The toughest challenge for any actor is to get accepted and loved by the audience.

People are willing to pay for the right to cheer or boo Roman Reigns. That is your job as a box office attraction. Your job and the manner in which you feed your family is not dependent upon whether the audience respects you or disrespects you. It's dependent on the audience's willingness to pay to see you.

As an actress, I am happy that people are offering me good roles and I am earning success critically and commercially.

I want to tackle the award-winning films. I want to be seen as an actor-actor.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

After passing out of the National School of Drama, I spent many years doing small-time roles in Bollywood.

I had only ever done films that never had this huge fan base. I acted just to act. And so, coming into 'The Originals' and 'Legacies' and that fandom for the first time, I didn't know how to handle it at first, but I have a better grip on it now.

I have been lucky enough to portray many, many characters.

My most memorable role would have to be Agnes Calay of 'Forevermore,' probably because it was my first lead role.

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.

I ended up going to America for an acting workshop, and everything sort of kicked off from there.

When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about 'Game of Thrones.' So he's absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

Without 'Santini,' my life as an actor would never have had any of the depth or, at least, nothing like the depth it has now.

There are people who do not get to act after two films. I have been in the industry for over two decades.

There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.