59 Quotes by Madchen Amick

I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.

I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.

My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

It's odd to grow up in a gaming town because... we know all of the tricks that are going on behind the scenes.

You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.