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Katherine Waterston
Katherine Waterston
British Actress
Born: Mar 3, 1980
Actor Life Me People Think You
Related authors: Denise Van Outen Emily Blunt Emma Watson Helen Mirren Helena Bonham Carter Honor Blackman Maggie Smith Susannah York
I think connecting to a character is like connecting to any human being - either you like them or you don't. You might not be able to list the reasons why you love your best friend or what attracted you to them; it's just something that you feel - a connection, an understanding, or a curiosity that makes you want to get to know them. Katherine Waterston
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Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.' Katherine Waterston
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I feel like people assume if a character is very different than you, that means it's difficult to get into their head or into their skin. Katherine Waterston
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Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it. Katherine Waterston
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I don't think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything. Katherine Waterston
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I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior. Katherine Waterston
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When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography. Katherine Waterston
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I was barely in 'Taking Woodstock.' Katherine Waterston
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Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. Katherine Waterston
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I feel like most actors just dig and dig and work and work in whatever way they do to try to do as much as they can to portray a character in the limited time they have to play it, whether it's six months or one month or one week of work, you know. Katherine Waterston
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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. Katherine Waterston
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I think everything happens organically. You mine for clues. It's all immersive, and stuff you can use comes out of that immersion. I don't really like to wear wigs in movies because I like to look like the character all the time. Katherine Waterston
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I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me. Katherine Waterston
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It's very easy to think that the way things are is the way things will stay, and life just isn't like that. Katherine Waterston
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I think that when you are struggling as an actor, you imagine that if things were to pan out, everything in your life would change, But really, it's not so different. You're still pursuing good work. You still panic that you're doing it all wrong. Katherine Waterston
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There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why. Katherine Waterston
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There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose. Katherine Waterston
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I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and died. Katherine Waterston
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About 10 minutes before I found out that I had landed 'Fantastic Beasts', I got a residual check in the mail for zero dollars. On the check it said 'Advice Slip.' And I was like, 'Well, what's the advice? Go into another line of work? Katherine Waterston
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That period between finishing the film and opening night is agonising. That's part of why actors go from job to job - so they don't have to live with the anxiety in the interim. Katherine Waterston
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Sometimes you find yourself digging around for something useful, and you don't necessarily know what it is until you find it. Sometimes it's a word from a book that you read every day. Katherine Waterston
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Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you have to embrace your most childlike imagination - a sense of wonder and uninhibited playfulness. Katherine Waterston
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When I go to see a movie, I never think about all the people it took to make it. Katherine Waterston
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When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye. Katherine Waterston
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The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent. Katherine Waterston
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All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary. Katherine Waterston
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