Actor Quotes by Carrie Preston

11 Actor quotes by Carrie Preston

Carrie Preston offers eleven compact thoughts that reveal her attitude toward acting. Each line feels like a quick note from a thoughtful performer, perfect for a fast‑read insight into her perspective.

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I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my…

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I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more…

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Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age…

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Auditioning is so different than doing the work in some ways. It's very much about solving the scene, I think, and coming…

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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.

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What I like to do as an actor is transform. It's way more fun to play characters who are completely different than…

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I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized…

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I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to…

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By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the…

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I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at…

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A lot of times, in film and TV, they just want you to play yourself. But, when you're someone who's more of…

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I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really…

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I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.

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I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like…

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I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.

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I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots…

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What I like to do as an actor is transform. It's way more fun to play characters who are completely different than me. I…

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