Top 20 Lauren Ambrose Quotes

Having my son, I mean, I feel already that it makes me a better actress. Just the feeling and the love that expands in my being is more than I ever thought possible.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

Norbert Leo Butz is a master class in energy.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

On ‘Six Feet Under,’ I never really had much to do with the actual business, with the embalming stuff. That wasn’t really my role.

Harry Hadden-Paton is just a lovely actor and an incredible person.

I hope to someday be a great actress and a wonderful performer.

I studied classical music in high school.

It’s the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you’re going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.

I love the process of working on a play. I love rehearsal so much. New York can be so tough, but the community in the theater is so warm and glorious.

Yeah, I’ve always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I’m an actor before I’m anything else.

I used to be really wild and dissatisfied and angry and had a journey toward becoming a lady; I think that’s with anybody coming into their own power.

I like eclecticism. To feel comfortable and not overdressed. I still like thrift store shopping, and I don’t like to put a lot of effort into what I’m going to wear.

I think I need a little break. I’ve got a two-year old. I’ll be part of The Leisure Class for a while.

I really did always want to do theater.

That’s the thing about ‘Torchwood’: It will pull the rug out from under you. It goes along being cute and campy and gay, and then, all of a sudden, it’ll nail you.