Latest Tatiana Maslany Quotes from Interviews

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• Sexuality is so much more complex than our boobs. My sexuality isn't me as an object to be looked at. It's the way I say "hello" to somebody, the way I sit with somebody. A body is just a body. But we're really afraid of bodies. They hold a lot of power - I think that's why people can try to shame them so easily, because they are so powerful.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Powerful, Thinking, People

• 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 LA sometimes, a Korean day spa, and all the women there are nude. And I've never felt so in love with the human form as when I'm walking around and seeing all those bodies, thinking, Oh my god, we're all just built so differently. And every single body is beautiful. I will never understand that shame, and the reinforcement of that shame. It's crazy.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Beautiful, Crazy, Thinking

• I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Thinking, Together

  Source: www.etonline.com

• The whole press thing and who you are in the media, or what you have to project yourself to be, it feels very much like another person. People say to me, "Oh, your life must be changing," and I'm like, "Uh, I guess?" For me, it's such a gradual change, and I don't see it from the outside like everybody else does. It's weird, I see my face on a bus or online or somebody has my picture as their picture on Twitter and it's all a bit weird and I feel very disconnected from it and very much, "I guess that's me." It's very surreal.

  Tatiana Maslany

  People, Online, Bus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the fact that my parents are still, "Hey, great, that's great!" and not, "We need you to do this and be a star!" - it was never like that. 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. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Thinking, Parent, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was a kid, it was the attention I got from it, the immediate response from the audience, the thrill of being onstage. That's carried over into my adult life, I can't pretend I don't like the attention or whatever, but for me now, I've witnessed incredible performances that have changed the way I see the art form.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Art, Kids, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• John Cassavetes' films have really altered the way I see film and acting and storytelling and emotion and love, so I see acting as this incredible revealing of human nature and this means of telling our story, sharing our voice with the world. That's what acting is for me. It allows for people to experience things through the character, through the story.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Character, Mean, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers, they're both artists and actors; and their work and the way they see the world inspires me. We've been making films together since we were kids, in our backyard.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Brother, Kids, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My brothers are so much a part of who I am, and such a large part of my heart and my drive. I've never had a kid, but I understand that whole, "I would kill for my family" kind of thing. I understood it, it resonated with me. It's a very primal, animal thing that you feel for your family.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Brother, Heart, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think the improv also helps with the imagination of dealing this person across from me who's not physically there. When you do an improv scene, you're usually working on a blank stage and creating the props and creating the environment.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Thinking, Imagination, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Scary, Comedy, Tension

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think in the inception and creation of the characters, improv was the most important part for me, because I wanted to feel at home in those characters. I wanted to feel like I could commit to them. And so much of improv is saying yes and committing, so I think that's where the improv came in. Even if I'm saying yes to the X across the room from me, or the tennis ball on a stick, I have to stay alive.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Home, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I worked with dance a lot, for each character - different ways I could move my body, different music. It's the most fun thing in the world, because I love each and every one of the characters and I'd be happy just to play one of them, but the fact that I get to play upwards of six, seven, eight or whatever, it's a total dream.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Dream, Fun, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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 it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. How they respond determines the kinds of stories we tell.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Thinking, Creative, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm an actor, so I'm interested in the pursuit of storytelling and character and challenging myself and expanding my craft. That's not something that ever ends, because as you grow as a person, so does your capacity to play different characters. New things come up, new things you want to explore and new stories you want tell about life and your knowledge of things. I don't think there's ever going to be that satisfaction of "and now, comfort."

  Tatiana Maslany

  Character, Thinking, Challenges

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

• My favorite actor on the planet is Gena Rowlands and she plays women who, to me, somehow defy gender. They are women, they are feminine, they are masculine, they are everything. There's something exciting about that. I don't know how to articulate it exactly. I guess it's busting out of the archetypes a little bit and not feeling restricted.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Feelings, My Favorite, Feminine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's a daunting thing to be playing a real person and to have contact with her and meet her and be in her circle a little bit. It's an odd thing. There's so much responsibility to tell the story honestly and truthfully, and at the same time, you start to develop a friendship with this person - or I did.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Real, Responsibility, Odd

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'm super sad to have it finish because it's been such a dream job, but it's nice to know there's a conclusion.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Dream, Nice, Conclusion

  Source: variety.com

• All the foundation work you plant in the early seasons pay off in stronger storylines deep into our seasons. I think that only aids in performance.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Thinking, Stronger, Plant

  Source: variety.com

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

  Tatiana Maslany

  People, Challenges

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

• I think that's why it's difficult for women when they watch TV and we see one version of a woman who is attached at the hip to a guy, and that's kind of her whole thing. You kind of go, 'I don't relate to this, I don't feel this.' You know? Maybe somebody does, but not everyone. That's the other thing about storytelling, is you can't represent everybody. You know, you can't seek to do that. You have to tell stories that you're interested in talking about and characters that intrigue you.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Character, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I love performing. I love doing improv. It's a totally terrifying experience, but it's something that I've always felt so strongly about and that I'm kind of obsessed with. And just as an actor, it's a great exercise. It's a great playground, you know, to try things out and to work on your skills. Because the mandate of improv is kind of the same as acting: It's all about your scene partner, it's all about being present and in the moment and exploring together as a team, a collaboration.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Team, Exercise, Trying

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I think the sci-fi world allows for exploration of that that isn't on the nose and that isn't preachy, but it's kind of artful and explores it differently. I think there's more imagination in sci-fi. There's more chance to kind of explore perspective and not have it so grounded in this world that we live in, which is so stuck in a patriarchal kind of system.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Thinking, Imagination, Perspective

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I see a lot of things I'm so excited and hopeful about film and TV in Canada. There's just a huge movement, I think, in seeking an identity as Canadians, and really forging it and really embracing all the parts of us as Canadians that come from such varied experiences and such varied cultures. And I think there are strong voices that come out.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Strong, Thinking, Hopeful

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I'm excited to work on something where I have a bit more time with it, to explore one personality. That's definitely exciting to me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Personality, Excited, More Time

  Source: collider.com