Lily Gladstone

For me, just the sheer fact that I get to act and do this for a living is enough personal gratification and…

— Lily Gladstone

Indian country is small, word gets around about how people conduct themselves when they come into your community.

— Lily Gladstone

As a Montanan, a significant chunk of your life growing up is spent in a car, traveling. People say it's a small…

— Lily Gladstone

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

My very first paycheck was for $125 dollars as a featured extra as 'a crying girl' in a small indie film called…

— Lily Gladstone

Martin Scorsese and I first met over Zoom; then I met with both Marty and Leonardo DiCaprio, but I never read the…

— Lily Gladstone

Ballet, dance, movement, performance - it is the bedrock of why I love to perform.

— Lily Gladstone

Any role I play, which is native or highlights native history or culture, whether or not it's laid out, I'm always going…

— Lily Gladstone

I was always the squirrelly, overcharged kid.

— Lily Gladstone

My path to acting started with watching a lot of movies, because I grew up in a very rural place, that was…

— Lily Gladstone

My dad's a boilermaker, my mom was a teacher.

— Lily Gladstone

I was raised on a reservation, went to public school. It's a very normal, sort of working-class upbringing in one way, and…

— Lily Gladstone

I've been asked since my undergrad if I want my characters to be limited by ethnicity. So far, it hasn't helped me…

— Lily Gladstone

My dad saw early on when I was onstage that I just thrived. When I was nine, it was the worst of…

— Lily Gladstone

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

When I'm in a group of men, I don't feel like a man.

— Lily Gladstone

I hope that we will honor our ancestors and our future generations.

— Lily Gladstone

I like black comedy.

— Lily Gladstone

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

There is a lot of - there is a lot of humor in 'Fancy Dance,' and, you know, Jax is a very…

— Lily Gladstone

I live out of a suitcase.

— Lily Gladstone

I particularly like, with Indigenous characters, having conversations around gender fluidity, gender roles, and different worldviews.

— Lily Gladstone

Stillness is something that I know a lot of people, period - even outside of the acting realm - just struggle with,.…

— Lily Gladstone

Things move at their own pace.

— Lily Gladstone

Whenever I come to Oklahoma, I set aside a week or two to hang out and visit people.

— Lily Gladstone