I've always been drawn to acting work that you invite the audience into. Very avant-garde work, movement-based pieces and film. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
In small-town America, you have to know somebody who loves film or recommends things to you, or you have to be really… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Some of the very first films, I think the very first film, was of Native people. It was us filming ourselves and… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
I always knew I'd struggle to be cast in commercial and studio films and that my niche would be independent film and… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
I think a lot of Natives, when they're working in any environment - not just film - may many times be the… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
The first thing that we did when we moved out to Seattle was enroll me in Stone Soup Theatre. That kind of… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
We only know what we hear, we only know what we see. When all that people see are these really large-budget films… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Martin Scorsese and I first met over Zoom; then I met with both Marty and Leonardo DiCaprio, but I never read the… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
For me, just the sheer fact that I get to act and do this for a living is enough personal gratification and individual fulfillment.… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
Indian country is small, word gets around about how people conduct themselves when they come into your community. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
As a Montanan, a significant chunk of your life growing up is spent in a car, traveling. People say it's a small town with… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
I was born and raised on my reservation in my mountains on my plains. That's still where I feel the most full. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
My very first paycheck was for $125 dollars as a featured extra as 'a crying girl' in a small indie film called 'Here Come… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
Martin Scorsese and I first met over Zoom; then I met with both Marty and Leonardo DiCaprio, but I never read the script with… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
Ballet, dance, movement, performance - it is the bedrock of why I love to perform. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
Any role I play, which is native or highlights native history or culture, whether or not it's laid out, I'm always going to make… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
My path to acting started with watching a lot of movies, because I grew up in a very rural place, that was snowed in… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
I was raised on a reservation, went to public school. It's a very normal, sort of working-class upbringing in one way, and in another… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
I've been asked since my undergrad if I want my characters to be limited by ethnicity. So far, it hasn't helped me back. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
My dad saw early on when I was onstage that I just thrived. When I was nine, it was the worst of it. I… — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
I think there's a perception from the city that the country is a very hostile environment. And that's not the case, necessarily. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share
