Tricia Helfer Quotes

I'll be honest, I like shooting 'New Girl.' I like the people. The show is still new to me. I've never done TV like this before.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

I worked on this Showtime series called 'Beggars and Choosers,' this was like 2000, and Bea Arthur guest-starred on our show. I always loved 'The Golden Girls,' and thought she was a supreme comedy actress, supreme actress period.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad.'

If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.

I think actors who take things too far are funny.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.

Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

I watched 'The Neighbors' when it first came on, and I thought it was hysterical. And every time I think something just tickles my funny bone, I call my agent and say, 'You know, I like this show. If they're ever looking for somebody, I'd like to work with them.'

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy.

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

I really enjoy working on 'Modern Family.'

I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

Before I started on 'Borgen', people introduced me to some great American box-sets to convince me that TV could be good. I now watch them all the time. Amy Poehler is very funny in 'Parks and Recreation' and 'In Treatment,' with Gabriel Byrne, is also really good.

I am a drama queen!

Most acting is very melodramatic. It's not what you see in people.

I was writing for live television. And I said to myself, someday, soon as I can, I have got to do a situation comedy.