Top 45 Danielle Macdonald Quotes

My sister, myself, and my cousins would put on shows for our parents and charge them to come and watch, apparently. That’s what I’m told. My parents said I knew how to milk it.

Because I don’t look like most lead actresses look, I was told that I shouldn’t even come to America. That I shouldn’t even try! I think that’s ridiculous.

Growing up, you see movies, and the big person is always the butt of a joke or the funny best friend, or they lose weight, and that’s when they become redeemable.

I had a talk with Frances McDormand, actually, right before I did my first lead in a film, and that was really amazing.

Kendrick is phenomenal. I’ve never tried and practiced a song that was as hard as when I practiced Kendrick’s verse on ‘Control.’ He’s a genius. I think that people do recognize it.

I’m very competitive. I’m very honest, too, so I wouldn’t cut anyone down to get ahead. I play fair, but I like to win.

The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren’t pigeonholed the same way.

I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.

My mom is Italian, and her whole family still lives in Italy. My dad is Australian, and his family lives in Australia, so we were raised there.

I think, in Australia, it’s kind of a crazy thing to say, ‘I want to be an actor.’ People look at you weirdly. And when I said I was moving to L.A., I remember people saying, ‘No, you shouldn’t. You’ll just come back disappointed.’

That’s one of the really cool things about being an actor. You get to explore all different parts of yourself.

I have a dog and a cat, and they are best friends.

I would love to live in a world that is purely equal, where everyone has equal opportunities in every way. But that is not reality.

‘Priscilla’ was made in 1994, and I think it was kind of daring for its time.

You can drive your own self crazy. You don’t have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That’s really the thing that gets you.

I love acting, and I’m going to continue doing that.

I wanted to act; wherever that was, I was happy. It just happened to be in America for me.

I grew up in Sydney, Australia, and I started doing acting classes when I was in eighth grade.

Words are just words. They only bother you if you let them.

I think you have to try and fail a little bit, because you learn how badly you want it.

I’m a realist – yes, I know: darn, I’m unlikely to have a love scene with Chris Hemsworth anytime soon, if ever. But I also believe that persistence and hard work pays off.

There aren’t often plus size, very real normal women in film. It’s never their story.

It’s okay to be you and okay to be who you are and okay to love and accept yourself.

None of my family is in the industry. But I watched movies like an insane person when I was a child. I used to make my dad stop at the video store every time we drove past it, and you had to drive past the video store to get to our house.

I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can’t audition, then you can’t work. I studied there. I did classes there. I learned how to act. Growing up there, I discovered my love for acting, but I just wasn’t getting the opportunities to work professionally.

There’s a process: you audition, you get rejected, occasionally you get jobs, and it’s exciting, but it’s all little stepping stones.

Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.

I will never stop being excited about ‘Harry Potter.’

It’s kind of amazing to see that progress happens over time.

I didn’t know how to be cool. I didn’t know how to have swag.

When you rap, you’re using all of yourself.

I think everyone kinda feels a little out place sometimes.

The most surprising thing – and the thing I really didn’t think I would have an opportunity to do when I was younger – was I didn’t realize the kind of roles I would be able to play. I thought it would be, like, two lines here, the joke.

The big message is, you’re the star in your own life. You don’t have to change; you are who you are. Go and do what you want to do.

It definitely took me a while to adjust to L.A. I came out knowing nobody, and I’d never lived away from home before.

I think avocado toast is the best ever. It’s my favorite.

I just got to do a challenging scene with Jennifer Aniston! That’s unreal to me.

I love tinted moisturiser. I feel like I’m wearing nothing when I’m wearing it, which is how I like to feel, but it still provides me with coverage – and it’s got sunscreen in it, so I’m not worried about getting burnt.

The only thing is, I’m terrified of horror movies. I’m scared – I’m admitting it! I mean, I would still do a horror movie; I just probably wouldn’t be able to watch it.

It would be really cool to have some more roles where it doesn’t matter how a character looks. You get a script, you see it, and it doesn’t matter: there’s no description of how the character looks in any way shape or form; it’s just, whoever is right for the role is the person.

I came out to America just before I turned 19, got my first audition, and booked it.

I’m pretty stubborn.

You just have to find the people that you love, and surround yourself with them.

I love Octavia Spencer. I love what she has to say as a human, and I love her career and the variety of characters she has played.

One of the cool things about ‘Patti Cake$’ is that it is about someone that is against stereotype.