Best Quote by Nicola Coughlan

I never played an ingenue.

— LaTanya Richardson

I've never wanted to be the ingenue.

— Debi Mazar

I was never an ingenue, thank God; always character.

— Patricia Routledge

Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

— Kristen Johnston

I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them…

— Carrie Preston

I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was…

— Kathy Bates

I could never play the ingenue, the girl next door or the very successful young doctor. That would be a bore.

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.

— Joan Chen

I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, 'cause they were cooler; they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess…

— John Hughes

I never felt like an outsider in the industry.

— Nora Fatehi

I wasn't some sort of ingenue. I always saw myself as a lifer in this industry, and working as an actor on 'Wonder Years'…

— Fred Savage

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

— Barbra Streisand