Juliet Rylance Quotes

#1. In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.

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#2. I grew up with Shakespeare, and there are so many wonderful teachings in those plays. The stories are all so unique and timeless. There is just so much learning in that body of work, and that is something I will always go back to.

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#3. We work so hard as young artists to further our careers or improve our technique, sometimes it gets so easy to not actually go and see things like a play or a film. I think the best way to get better is to see other actors do what they do well.

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#4. I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.

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#5. Watching my stepfather and mother working in the industry - acting and composing - and seeing firsthand how difficult it is to achieve a successful career in the theater, I thought it might be safer to go to art school with the aim of becoming a painter.

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#6. I have a really embarrassing reaction to horror films. I break out in a fever.

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#7. I love a good corset.

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#8. It really is individual for everyone, but for me, theater is where I learn and grow, and that is always a good thing.

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#9. I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Chekhov's 'The Seagull.'

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#10. My first paying job was a in a production of Neil LaBute's 'Bash: Latter Day Plays' at the Union Street theater in Borough. I played the 'Medea Redux' character. That was my first job out of drama school. I can't remember how much I got paid. I'm sure it was pennies.

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#11. I come from a family rooted in the arts, so I think I naturally gravitated towards performing from an early age.

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#12. I think I was about seven when people started telling my parents I would be an actor or a performer of some kind.

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