Mireille Enos Quotes

At the beginning of my TV and movie stuff, I would be really critical of myself, but I've gotten better and better. There's always little things that I think, "Oh, that could have been whatever," but most of the time I'm able to let go and watch like an audience member.

I was sitting in a caf in London with my husband and baby daughter when my phone rang with the news! I feel so incredibly lucky and honored to be nominated, and so grateful to be part of the family that is The Killing.

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

Something that I believe is that you're as sick as your secrets. The more open you're able to be, the more you're able to share even the most uncomfortable aspects of yourself, the healthier you'll be.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I ended my Twitter account a week after I got on the show. I felt like, "This is not a good tool for me to keep my narcissism at bay," so I cut it off.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.

The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

I think zombies are the great analogy for all of our fears about all of the scary things that happen on our planet, and the potential for scariness on our planet. Being chased by anyone or anything can be scary. It is just a big, fun analogy.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.