Top 50 Morena Baccarin Quotes

Coming from ‘V’ into ‘Homeland’ was a really big change and the best gift as an actor you can get – which is to transform so drastically from one genre to the next, from lizard to human being!

You’ve got to bring your A-game when you’re in the same household as a military guy.

With a toddler, chilling out is hard to do.

I think, in general, this country makes a huge deal about nudity and not a big enough deal about violence. We’re allowed to cut people’s heads off on shows – but not allowed to show breasts or somebody breastfeeding or whatever. I think it’s a big deal in America especially. But I think to each is own.

We’re all interested in life outside of Earth. We all have a fascination with what’s out there because we don’t really know.

I grew up in the West Village and went to the New York City Lab School for junior high.

My mom was incredibly supportive when she found out that I wanted to be an actress, and that certainly made things easier and more fun.

I had a very liberal family.

I was your typical pregnant lady – pickles and watermelon.

I do think it is possible to be in love with two people at the same time.

You learn to not take things personally and to just let it roll off of you.

‘V’ had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the ‘Homeland’ script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually – a slow-burner, like ‘The Wire.’

You see those magazines, ‘Oh, look at so-and-so without makeup, Halle Berry without makeup.’ It’s so crazy to wake up in the morning and have that thought – ‘Do I need to put makeup on? Do I need to do something because I know people are going to know who I am?’

I’m kind of a workaholic.

My son’s baby paraphernalia always ends up in my bag.

I’d love to do a comedic film. I’d love to do a very epic Shakespearian film.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on ‘Homeland.’

I’ve had long hair, I’ve had short hair, and I’ve had in between hair… and its all good.

When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I took to my hairdresser was Jean Seberg in Breathless. I said, ‘Make me look like this.’

Some people have strong opinions about women with short hair. They find it very masculine and severe. Others think it’s soft and feminine and makes your features stand out. It can be an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.

I’ve love to do more movies. Just because I’m interested in the medium very much. I’ve done a lot of theatre at this point, and I’ve done a lot of TV. I’ve done a few independent films, but a lot of them have not seen the light of day. It’d be really nice to be in a film that gets out there.

My whole family is very artistic – my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

I use Lina Hanson Global Face Serum every night. It’s a blend of 100 per cent natural essential oils from all over the world, many of which are produced by women’s cooperatives.

When I was 7, we moved to New York because my dad’s job was transferred.

I had the opportunity to wear Hearts On Fire jewelry on the red carpet and just loved the way their diamonds made me look and feel.

For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. The hairs on my neck were standing up all the time, I didn’t know where was safe.

All I think about is my son, my family, and my future family.

I can’t complain. I’m making a living out of what I do, which is really rare for a lot of actors. The hard part is staying confident and staying with it.

‘Gotham’ was something that just popped up for me.

That’s the charm of Deadpool. He’s charmingly annoying, and he’ll be the first to admit that.

My career has been very good to me, but really, the odds are really slim. It’s a tough life, and you deal with a lot of rejection and unemployment, and if you’re lucky to have a career, it’s not easy. So you just want to protect your kids from the pain of rejection.

My dad was a news editor for a Brazilian news station, and they had offices in New York and London.

I certainly am not doing nudity because I think lightly of it – I don’t think it’s something that one should just jump into without thinking about it.

In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.

I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.

There’s really no way to plan how to play an alien.

I am not that savvy, to be honest. I know what I believe in, and I try to follow people who do the same.

I would love to be a Bond girl. That is on my bucket list, definitely.

It’s incredibly fun as an actor to get to play different styles and different genres for completely different audiences.

I’ve done some sitcoms here and there, but nothing long term.

I’d like to think that every job and every step I’ve taken progressed more and more toward the career that I’ve wanted to have.

I tend to wear flats and jeans and no makeup and walk around, go to the grocery store, and do whatever I have to do.

If you watch the news, you see politicians use human vulnerabilities to get in and earn people’s trust.

Women work as much as men now, if not more. There’s a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.

I’m not always up to date on everything that’s going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you’re not really seeing anything else.

My first role was in a Nativity play. My mom was playing Mary, and I was crying backstage, so she brought me out as Baby Jesus.

What I say is the only thing I can control.

It’s rare that this woman gets to be in a superhero movie and not be the victim.

There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.

I love it when you have a lull in the day and you turn on the TV and a random movie is on that you either have never seen or haven’t seen in years. Like ‘Coming to America’ or ‘Misery’ or ‘Moonstruck.’