Tatiana Maslany

I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a…

— Tatiana Maslany

It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.

— Tatiana Maslany

My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in.…

— Tatiana Maslany

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of…

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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

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I loved filming in Morocco; it was amazing. I'd never been anywhere like that. The culture was phenomenal. I was so blown…

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Dance has always been a really important thing for me, so being able to physically express the characters through music and dance…

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I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because…

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I see a lot of things I'm so excited and hopeful about film and TV in Canada. There's just a huge movement,…

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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

— Tatiana Maslany

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.

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I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people.

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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way…

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The most bizarre demographics come up to me. Men in their 50s come up to me and are like, "Alison is my…

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That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with…

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I worked with dance a lot, for each character - different ways I could move my body, different music. It's the most…

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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it.…

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Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then…

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So much of how you look at yourself in the mirror reflects how you feel about yourself, and how you comport yourself.

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I think the improv also helps with the imagination of dealing this person across from me who's not physically there. When you…

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It's a daunting thing to be playing a real person and to have contact with her and meet her and be in…

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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so…

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I'll never, never understand why people think it's their business to comment on other people's bodies. I go to a spa in…

— Tatiana Maslany

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

— Tatiana Maslany