Top Michelle Forbes Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Michelle Forbes Biography

Michelle Forbes

Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo (born January 8, 1965) is an American actress who has appeared on television and in independent films. Forbes first gained attention for her dual role in daytime soap opera Guiding Light, for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. She is also a Saturn Award winner with three nominations.

Read about Michelle Forbes in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Michelle Forbes Quotes

I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks. ' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television.

Age, Fan, Fans, Massive, Network, Television

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County. ' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

Smart, Thinking, Veins, Derivative, County, Durham

As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.

Actors, Want, Chords, Actor, Same, Muster

I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.

Alan, Blood, Class, Fantastical, Mom, Play

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

Blood, Career, Careers, Fun, Possible, Top

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.

Bored, Come, Games, Waiting, Watching

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

Blood, Mind, Littles, Stretch, Point

So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.

Tvs, Easy, Bigs, Antagonist, Become, Big

It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.

Jobs, Children, Long, Know, Come, Cynicism

Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.

Childhood, Fruit, My Favorite, Pears, Reminds

In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down. . . It's not just about vampires. It's about a lot of different things.

Age, Ball, Blood, Different, Take, Vampire

I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought.

Would Be, Vegan, Easier, Thought, Diet

There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them.

Feelings, Youth, Excited, See, Maybe

People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets.

Answers, Blood, Like, Palpable, People, Thinking

I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.

New York, Doctors, Talking, Day, Years, Patients

When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.

Drama, Fiction, People, Political, Spaceships, Understood

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

Film, People, Reason, Show, Years

Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County. ' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.

Air, Blood, People, Came, Battlestar, Show