On-Screen Portrayal Quotes

I've never played anyone but myself on screen.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see.

It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes.

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

I had a soccer double, but most of what is in the movie is me!

Of course, we're supportive of the gay and lesbian community. I've just never portrayed that on camera. Once I met Taylor [Schilling] I knew that it was going to be really comfortable and okay, but the nudity was a little bit of an issue for me.

That was the hardest thing for me. When it was published that I was going to play Tommen, all the fans of the books were like, 'Oh, he's turning 16' - that was the hardest thing: to play younger and show that.

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse.

The only really good thing about acting in movies is that there's no heavy lifting.

To me acting and doing movies is really strongly about the present time. It's all about when you do it. It's to create this feeling of extreme awareness and concentration. Because it doesn't happen without an extreme concentration, when you are completely immersed and focused on that.

I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.