Quotes by Amy Ryan - Page 1

It's fun to play happy people.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Fun
Happy People
People
Play
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I know how to separate my own laundry.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Know How
Laundry
My Own
Know My Own Own
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Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Actors
Dependent
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When I was growing up I actually was into Bon Jovi!
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Bon Jovi
Growing
Growing Up
Growing Up Up Growing
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
New York
Queens
Backgrounds
Class
Working Class
Background
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I can really laugh at myself and make a fool out of myself.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Fool
I Can
Laughing
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You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Ends
Therapy
Thinking
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The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Homegrown
Kind
Party
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I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Drama
Fun
Sound
Love Me Fun
Costume
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I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Admit
Creatively
Intoxicating
Professionally
Steve
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The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Fans
Thinking
Wire
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'The Wire,' I was such a fan of that show the first season - I think that's the best-written show on TV.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Wire
Season
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It's funny to see the finished product of a movie, stuff that's so beautiful, and to remember the particulars.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Beautiful
Remember
Stuff
Finished Product
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Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Big Problems
Bitterness
Couple
Pulling
Pulling Away
Stories
Couples
In The Beginning
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I'm so fortunate in that I've never had another job to pay a bill but acting, since the day I got out of high school.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Jobs
Acting
Fortunate
High School
School
Day Never School
Bill
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If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Body
Excited
Scare
Your Body
Body Doing Your
Scares
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Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Art
Care
Mortgage
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I really don't have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that's fine. To me, that's beautiful.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Beautiful
Fine
Makeup
Mean
Problem
Beautiful Me People
Side
Wearing
Showing
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First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Ideas
Judgment
Needs
Prejudice
First Of All
Follow
Preconceived
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I love Morocco - it's a real challenge to all five senses. You think you know something, and you don't. It's wonderful. It keeps you on your toes that way.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Challenges
Real
Thinking
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It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Dark
Energy
Scary
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It happens a lot, but I also think of it as not so much like being abandoned by a director 'cause they're worried about a technical aspect, but I think actually that's my job.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Jobs
Directors
Thinking
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I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Confidence
Actors
Directors
Great Freedom
Actor
Affleck
Ben
Ben Affleck
Clint
Clint Eastwood
Eastwood
Include
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There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Choices
Doctors
Play
Tv Shows
Health Doctor Me
Afford
Doctor
Health Insurance
Ideal
Insurance
Tv Show
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There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Baby
Closing
Doors
Feet
Multitasking
Parent
Your Body
Time Your Body
Certain Things
Door
Foot
Holding
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One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Jobs
Moving
Perks
Smart
Informed
Move On
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You try to follow suit and the directors I work with, like Sidney Lumet (on film in Before The Devil Knows You're Dead and TV in 100 Centre Street) who thinks actors hung the moon, thinks they can do anything, but he also works really quickly, the same like Clint Eastwood, and so you better also do your homework, you know?
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Devil
Moon
Thinking
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I was actually fortunate that I never had to have any other job than being an actor. I don't have those odd stories of having to make some money here or there, but certainly there are some credits on my résumé I wish I hadn't done. It paid my health insurance, and I say that just from a creative standpoint, shows I'm not that proud of, things like that.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Creative
Done
Wish
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You know, there are a lot of directors, like Clint Eastwood (on Changeling) is one where he casts you and you know in many ways that's enough for him and so, you go, ok, well, he saw something. Ok, what is it that he saw? What is it that I brought to this and why am I right for this and not trying to double-guess it and get in your own way and get psyched out, 'cause he trusts so much.
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Directors
Trying
Way
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The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
New York
Teacher
Inspiration
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When you're on a movie and the production department says, "We need old photographs of you - your character - when you were 20-years-old." I usually tell them it's in storage or I had a fire. I go back to these old photos and there's never a good photo or they're of times that I'm so glad I'm out of. They have nothing to do with the character that you're playing, so it feels false. That's one of the hardest things for me in terms of looking back.
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Character
Photograph
Term
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I enjoyed learning something and, uh, so I think like with anything in life, in the schoolroom in an artistic endeavor, if you have just a really good teacher, it's inspiring. I certainly use, in my work, I mean, I used to rely heavily on imagery. I was obsessed with this photograph that was in the NY Times of a fish engulfing a smaller fish and this smaller fish had this look in its eyes; it knew what was about to happen and, I don't know how they ever captured such an image, but I've used that for a play I (did). It's called "Saved."
Amy Ryan / Film Actress
Teacher
Eye
Mean
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