Lily Gladstone

Well, art shouldn't please everybody.

— Lily Gladstone

My dad loved 'Kundun.'

— Lily Gladstone

Things move at their own pace.

— Lily Gladstone

I like black comedy.

— Lily Gladstone

Native women are unstoppable.

— Lily Gladstone

I have a profound love of bees.

— Lily Gladstone

I live out of a suitcase.

— Lily Gladstone

I was a nerd. But I was a popular nerd.

— Lily Gladstone

Sheila Tousey: there's no actress alive that surpasses Sheila's talent.

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Lily Gladstone

Indigenous perspective is a very place-based thing.

— Lily Gladstone

I was always the squirrelly, overcharged kid.

— Lily Gladstone

I'm lucky that I have a community to uplift and to take along with me.

— Lily Gladstone

Sometimes it's kind of hard to trust that people are going to trust you.

— Lily Gladstone

Before it's all over, it would be really fun to do an action film.

— Lily Gladstone

Vulnerability is what makes your work accessible to people.

— Lily Gladstone

I advocate for other people before I advocate for myself. Even just making dinner reservations, I count the whole party and I…

— Lily Gladstone

I've known several people who reached the point where they realised they could shape the world for their kids and introduce them…

— Lily Gladstone

A very quick way to annoy me as an actor is a director trying to tell me what my character's thinking.

— Lily Gladstone

I've been really lucky that my career has largely been shaped by women filmmakers.

— Lily Gladstone

I want to do something like 'Stranger than Fiction,' like a Native version of 'Stranger than Fiction.' That's one that comes to…

— Lily Gladstone

Native American people have been all over the world. One example I use is that I met a Blackfeet man in Vienna.…

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Lily Gladstone

I lived in the reservations until I was 11, when we moved for lack of economic opportunities.

— Lily Gladstone

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

I'm liking that when I'm now walking into generals and hearing about the scope of characters that are out there for Indigenous…

— Lily Gladstone

When I moved to Seattle, oftentimes I was the only Native kid in my class. So would be put on the spot,…

— Lily Gladstone

My cultural understanding is more shaped by Blackfeet, because that's the reservation I was raised on. There's a bit of a pan-cultural…

— 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 stand on the shoulders of some unbelievable talent. Graham Greene and chief Dan George have been nominated for their performances by…

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Lily Gladstone

The stories of our Indigenous people have shaped the very foundational fabric of our modern day. And so much of that is…

— Lily Gladstone

The first thing that we did when we moved out to Seattle was enroll me in Stone Soup Theatre. That kind of…

— Lily Gladstone

The fancy dance is a celebration of each other, and a celebration of life. The one thing I always heard was: we…

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Lily Gladstone

I like spending time in the garden with my houseplants. I'm a plant mom.

— Lily Gladstone

That's what art allows us to do, is process things.

— Lily Gladstone

I was bullied a lot when I was a kid, partly because I was just goofy.

— Lily Gladstone

I feel probably more feminine when I'm around other men.

— Lily Gladstone