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" The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons. "

Tatiana Maslany

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" Film has always been where my heart is. "

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" There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape. "

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" How you go about moving within the world you live in says so much about who you are. "

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" I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction. "

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" I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush. "

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" I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping. "

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" My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night. "

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" You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from. "

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" My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. "

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" I fell in love with 'Star Trek' after J. J. Abrams's movie. I'm so into that. "

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" Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person. "

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" As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself. "

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" I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was. "

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" Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters. "

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" I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen. "

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" I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV. "

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" I think being idle is quite hard for me to do. "

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" Music is like a lifeblood - it changes the way I move; it changes the way I feel about myself. The way I walk into the room is different depending on the song I was just listening to. "

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" I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by. "

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" Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me. "

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" Sex isn't hard, but intimacy is terrifying. "

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" My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully. "

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" I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner. "

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" I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough. "

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" I grew up in Canada, man - we all had rinks in our backyards because we'd ice down the grass with a hose and build a skating rink. "

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" Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place. "

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" I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater. "

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