41 Quotes by Lauren Ambrose

I'm an actor before I'm anything else.

It's a miracle that any job comes together.

'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.

It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.

I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.

On 'Six Feet Under,' I never really had much to do with the actual business, with the embalming stuff. That wasn't really my role.

That's the thing about 'Torchwood': It will pull the rug out from under you. It goes along being cute and campy and gay, and then, all of a sudden, it'll nail you.

I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.

I just really love having dinner parties and hanging out.