Tatiana Maslany quotes

Tatiana Maslany is a Canadian actress widely recognized for her versatility and dynamic performances. Her portrayal of multiple characters in the television series "Orphan Black" garnered her international acclaim and several prestigious awards. She continues to impress audiences with her depth, range, and commitment to her craft. Here are 41 of her quotes:

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.

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'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.

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

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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.

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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Film has always been where my heart is.

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

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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.

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

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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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