Tatiana Maslany quotes

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Different #Feels #Persons

I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Brother #Artist #Two

Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Sex #Intimacy

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#People #Cartoon #Way

Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Sides #Want #Darker Side

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Know Yourself #Trust Your Gut #Guts

You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Struggle #Thinking #Artist

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Giving #Listening #Trying

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Drama #Thinking #Safety

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Character #Thinking #Creating

I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Real #Reading #Character

It's the reason we go to films and watch television: to escape the mundane nature of life and see another world and see ourselves in that other world. I think that's what sci-fi does so well.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Thinking #Other Worlds #Watches

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Mom #Dad #Ideas

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Mom #School #Taught

My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Friday #Brother #Night

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Dream #Character #Stuff

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Auditions #Environment #Excited

Film has always been where my heart is.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Heart #Film #My Heart

How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Moving #World #Who You Are

I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Stars #Abram

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Men #Ice #Skating

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Done #Comedy

I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Zombie #Kind #Sci Fi

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Hip Hop #Musical #Bells

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#People #Psychology

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Kids #Dancing #Dancer

I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Thinking #Idle

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Kids #Play #Donkey

I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Fans #Sci Fi #Tendencies

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Kids #People #Dancing

I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Responsibility #Actors #Care

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Panic #Firsts #Different

Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Being Yourself #Fun #Stay Positive

For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Drama #Thinking #Way

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Unique #Guy #Black

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Girl #Moving #School

Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Makeup #Hair #Interesting

Go with your gut every single time. It's never, ever wrong. Even if feels like everybody else is telling you that you need to do this or do that. Your gut is your artist and who you are as a person and what makes you special, and what makes you an interesting performer. Never try to be something you're not.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Artist #Interesting #Trying

We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Character #Play #Long

'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Hate #Book #Character

As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.
-- Tatiana Maslany

#Kids #Boys #Quality