Mireille Enos Quotes
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I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.
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I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.
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When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
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My career has taken so many different paths to this point that I've come to realise that we're all the same, everywhere I've been. We're all just creatures trying to tell stories as good as we can, so whether that's in a tiny theatre or as part of the biggest multi-million dollar film, we're all still just trying to tell a good story at the end of the day.
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A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.
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I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.
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I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
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I was sitting in a caf in London with my husband and baby daughter when my phone rang with the news! I feel so incredibly lucky and honored to be nominated, and so grateful to be part of the family that is The Killing.
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I don't watch television because I have a tiny baby daughter. I'm useless.
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I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
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My mother is French, my father is Texan.
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The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.
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Something that I believe is that you're as sick as your secrets. The more open you're able to be, the more you're able to share even the most uncomfortable aspects of yourself, the healthier you'll be.
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People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.
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I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
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Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
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You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.
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My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
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I like laughter around me.
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I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
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It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
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Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.
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I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
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If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.