85 Quotes by Katherine Waterston

I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.

Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actors life.

When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.

I don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own.

When you come from a family of actors, people in show business, they really know to celebrate good news and to celebrate it hard because it's not every day that you get it.

What I love about the way they both [Paul Thomas Anderson and Joaquin Phoenix] work is that all of the monkey business is on film. There's no monkey business outside of the monkey business of making the movie. There's no ego bullshit, there's no wasted energy. It's all directed at the story and that's rare.

I didnt find it difficult to live in the Inherent Vice world or play those scenes, because they just seemed so real.

I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

I look back at my adolescence, and Im shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.