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All Quotes by author - Alycia Debnam-Carey
" At first, I was saying to my rep, 'I don't know if this is really my thing.' I get heart palpitations just watching basic comedy-horror stuff. "
Saying
Watching
Know
" Film is a lot different. You have the whole script in its entirety, and you have a couple of weeks to learn different scenes, really go over them and rehearse them so when you get to them they're more fleshed out. But TV shows are harder. "
Learn
You
Film
" Going back to 'The 100' is something I definitely wanted to do because the show is so great, and I'm so grateful to be part of it. "
Back
Grateful
Show
" Having no expectations is a really good thing. "
Really
Expectations
Good
" I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction. "
Arts
Direction
Go
" I didn't do the 'Home And Away' thing. "
Home
Away
Thing
" I didn't know much about the 'Walking Dead' until after I booked the gig, and then I watched the first four seasons. I binge watched them in two weeks, and at that moment I realised, 'Oh, this is a much bigger thing than I thought it was.' "
Walking
Thought
Know
" If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing. "
Real Life
Brother
Sibling
" I hated L.A. when I first got here. Hated it. "
First
Here
Hated
" I must say, I always - from experience, when I watch TV shows and I see characters leave without a proper explanation or leave with not enough time, I get irritated. I like it when there's a clean-cut reason or a defining moment where they have to go. Whether that's death or not, I think that's subjective. "
Time
Think
Moment
" I started to let go and seeing that there are no rules. "
Started
Rules
Let Go
" My mom's a children's television writer, so I was involved and around from a very young age. When I was eight, I did my first film with Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, who are a quite well-respected Australian producer-director duo, and that just changed my whole perspective on what I could do in life and be. "
Children
Life
Age
" My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show. "
Speak
You
Work
" Playing normal is hard - especially playing normal that's not you. "
Playing
Normal
Hard
" Siblings are often very opposite. "
Often
Opposite
Very
" Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice. "
World
Culture
Rest
" That contagion idea is so relevant and shows how quickly civilization could self-destruct. "
Relevant
Idea
How
" That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious. "
Everybody
Idea
Doomsday
" That's bizarre to see, L.A., downtown, and to feel like you're the only person there. "
You
Feel
See
" 'The 100' gave me this platform I never expected. I didn't expect the character to become anything. I was originally only signed up to do six episodes, and then it just sort of become this whole story and journey, which was an amazing character, a great journey, so that has been incredible, and I didn't expect anything out of it. "
Me
Amazing
Great
" The moment the world falls apart, you start forgetting history and wrongdoings in the past. "
Past
History
Moment
" 'The Walking Dead' do such a great job with that world. It is real, but it's also otherworldly; it's strangely theatrical, and I suddenly did become quite invested in the whole zombie phenomenon. "
World
Great
Dead
" Usually with something like 'The 100,' because you're working so much and every day, and they'll change the drafts quite quickly, we'll go through maybe, like, 12 different versions of the same scene over a week. So there is no point in learning it on a Tuesday when on a Thursday it might be completely different. "
Over
Week
Learning
" Watch 'Fear the Walking Dead,' because we'd love your support, but I think 'The 100' is such a great show; it was a great show before I got there. It's only getting better, and I'm so lucky I got to be a part of it. "
Support
Great
Fear
" When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go. "
Idea
Go
Holding On
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