Top 40 Katherine Waterston Quotes

When I go to see a movie, I never think about all the people it took to make it.

About 10 minutes before I found out that I had landed ‘Fantastic Beasts’, I got a residual check in the mail for zero dollars. On the check it said ‘Advice Slip.’ And I was like, ‘Well, what’s the advice? Go into another line of work?

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I didn’t find it difficult to live in the ‘Inherent Vice’ world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I feel that nudity is sort of what we do as actors.

If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn’t make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you’re a teen is often with a… more critical eye.

‘Inherent Vice’ was a novel that already existed, and in ‘Steve Jobs,’ I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

I look back at my adolescence, and I’m shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

When you are the kid of an actor, it’s always a very inviting world. Everyone is nice to you, the hair and make-up people braid your hair and play with you, and the costume department makes outfits for your teddy bears.

Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, ‘This is what you’re going to wear, this is what you’re going to hold, and remember, you’re lucky to be here, and shut up.’

I think it’s quite common for actors to almost rely on their characters to exercise parts of themselves in their regular life they don’t tend to explore so much.

You kind of wake up in the morning, and you don’t see anybody but these actors until you go home at night and pass out and do it again. So it’s structured a lot like the process when you’re making a film. You just kind of get in that tunnel vision. I like that. I like when the rest of the world kind of quiets.

The only way my mother’s beauty really affected me was that I always assumed that someday I would look like her. Then, late in my teens, I looked at a photo of her when she was younger than I was then, and I realised, no, it’s never going to happen.

It’s just a dream of the struggling actor to just have a proper shot – not just in a film that people will see, but with a character that’s rich and complicated and that you can show you’re capable of taking on.

Can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor… though it felt like something I couldn’t do until I grew up. I mean, I knew kids could be actors – I recall seeing them on my dad’s shoots and getting jealous.

I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It’s all immersive, and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion. I don’t really like to wear wigs in movies because I like to look like the character all the time.

All acting is nudity. It’s all vulnerable – and a little bit scary.

That period between finishing the film and opening night is agonising. That’s part of why actors go from job to job – so they don’t have to live with the anxiety in the interim.

Some days, the first coffee just laughs at you. It says, ‘Oh, you think I’m going to wake you up? Sucker.’

Every now and then, you get lucky enough to work with some people you feel like you would take a bullet for.

I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it’s six months or one month or one week of work, you know.

I’m overly sentimental and don’t throw things away.

When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it’s not every day that you get it.

Sometimes you find yourself digging around for something useful, and you don’t necessarily know what it is until you find it. Sometimes it’s a word from a book that you read every day.

I don’t have shame with my body. I don’t find a breast more vulnerable than an elbow.

There are people who have really high expectations for what we’re doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you’re doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination – a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness.

I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it’s not so different. You’re still pursuing good work. You still panic that you’re doing it all wrong.

There’s kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn’t. It’s kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don’t. You can’t really say why.

It’s very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn’t like that.

I think it’s a luxury when you love the thing you’re promoting, and then you don’t have to try to think of something, try and find some angle.

Acting is a community where you come in and out of each other’s lives. I’m slightly envious of the Golden Age of Hollywood. It must have been frustrating to be owned by the studio, but it was also like being in a company, working with the same people, and that appeals to me.

I guess whatever the director’s energy is is kind of contagious on set, because, um, you know, it’s a hierarchy, and we’re all kind of looking to the director for guidance.

One of my earliest memories was when I was three, going to this full-length mirror in my parents’ bathroom and saying into the mirror, ‘You are going to be an actress.’

What’s comforting about coming from a family of actors is I don’t have to explain the struggle. I can just sigh to my sister, ‘I had a bad one,’ and she’ll know exactly the profound audition humiliation I am describing.

What appeals about the ’70s is the celebration of the female form, the lack of constriction.

I’ve always enjoyed disappearing into a crowd in New York. As an actor, I love to spy, and it’s hard to be a good spy if everyone is looking at you. Also, I’m pretty shy. I don’t really like a lot of attention.

The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they’re dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.

People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they’ll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you’re going through.

Sometimes you meet people, and you somehow feel like you’ve known them your whole life.