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" A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart. "
Apart
Little
Little Bit
" Angela Bettis - I can't say enough about her. She is just an incredible presence. She is very petite and soft, while she still has this power that floats around her. "
Presence
Her
Enough
" Auditioning is a lot of fun for me. "
Me
Lot
Fun
" Being on a low-budget film is difficult enough, and you may as well be working on something that you really believe in and you really love, and for me, that's to play different characters, to play different roles, and challenge myself. "
Myself
Believe
Challenge
" For horror movies, it's great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can't calm my face down, and so it's really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes. "
I Am
Calm
Eyes
" 'Hellraiser' was the first horror film I ever saw, so it will always be a favorite. "
Always
Film
First
" I always tell people, 'If you say you don't like horror, it just means that you haven't found the right movie.' "
Say
Right
Always
" I did attend a convention with the production company behind 'The Woman' and 'Jug Face,' and I loved it and thought, 'I have to come back, as they are so much fun!' But those tickets are really expensive, and you're buying merchandise, and you want autographed pictures with people, so it's kind of like Disney World. "
Thought
Fun
Face
" I don't have much power to make many films, but I do have the power in what roles I choose. "
Many
Choose
Roles
" I grew up watching Sean Young films with my father; we've always been huge fans of hers. A surprising fact is that she loves to work on comedies, which was great for me to hear, because then I could ask her a million questions about 'Fatal Instinct,' which was a VHS I wore out from the video store. "
She
Questions
Me
" I have to be vulnerable to allow myself to give the best performance I ,and that doesn't stop in between takes, and it doesn't stop when I am finished for the night. "
Night
Performance
Best
" I'll continue doing horror until the day I die. I love it; it's so much fun. "
Doing
Day
Die
" I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do. "
Favourite
Comedy
I Love
" I love film very much. It's very special to me, and seeing how it all turns out is always just a magical moment for me. "
Seeing
Me
Love
" I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me. "
Father
Horror
Me
" I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan, and my boyfriend is Taiwanese, and he doesn't like to read. He had this Jackie Chan book, and I was asking him questions about him, and he didn't know, and I said, 'What do you mean you don't know? You have the Jackie Chan autobiography right there on the bookshelf!' "
Right
Book
Know
" In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer. "
Friends
Writing
School
" In real life, I'm a large character, and I need the space and platform to be large. "
Life
Real Life
Need
" In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other. "
Again
Comedy
Over
" I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put your main protagonist through living hell in every scene, and then you'll have a successful film. He laughed it off until watching me every day! "
Sweet
Advice
Day
" I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further. "
Busy
Name
Television
" It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is. "
Do Your Best
Best
Work
" It's kind of wild for me any time anybody says, 'I love this movie with Lauren Ashley Carter. I'm going to watch all her other movies,' because that's exactly the way I feel as a fan of other actors. "
Movies
Me
Love
" I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories. "
Said
Black
Horror
" I want to make movies that I would want to watch as a fan. "
Movies
Want
Make
" Ruth Gordon was such a delight to watch in 'Rosemary's Baby' after I had first seen her in 'Harold and Maude.' And Ellen Burstyn is a hero of mine from 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' The Exorcist,' 'Requiem For A Dream.' These women impacted me greatly as an actress. "
Women
Hero
Dream
" Sean Young is such a sweetheart and just absolutely lovely. From day one, she was just very easy to be around. She's definitely a 'mom' and very much a girl's girl. She likes talking about makeup and the business and just being a woman. "
Makeup
Day
Woman
" There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, 'Let me help you. I've been there before.' "
Dreams
Help
Me
" There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it. "
Then
Dramatic
Horror
" Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another. "
Love
Write
Things
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