Robin Tunney Quotations

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them

In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there

This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

When people see you after an event film, they tend to get really odd. But what's the alternative, dinner theatre in Fort Lauderdale?

Everything you read now is like a remake of a movie you've already seen. With independent film, things are more character-driven.

I need to be home for a while. I've been working for two-and-a-half years, so I want to go back to New York with my husband and hang out with my dogs!

I remember reading a review that said Jodie Foster was screaming so loud to be given an Oscar, you wanted them to give it to her just so she'd stop.

I didn't sit with paparazzi and interview them. I had been around Bruce Willis for two straight movies, so I saw the way the paparazzi follows him.

I usually play disenfranchised youth

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

People do eventually see something that's quality.

I've quoted Lost in America several times.

I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power... At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy."

I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.