Amanda Warren

“You don't want to overthink; you want to just stick with what you've been given.”

“I tend to play a lot of characters that are 10 or 15 years older than me.”

“You can't run from Earth, but you can try to get through the day.”

“As a Manhattan resident, I'm gutted by what certain landlords are doing, pushing folks who have lived in their apartments for decades out of their homes, as a greedy tactic to get more rent from newer tenants. It's one of the most disgusting, inhumane things I've ever witnessed in my beautiful city.”

“I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.”

“Perhaps there's a lot of quality television that's not right for the individual who needs questions answered in each episode, and perhaps reality television may be a better option. With the integrity of HBO and their drive to tell stories, it takes time to arrive at any sort of answers.”

“Perhaps it's the artist in me, but most days, I try to reflect the atmosphere my spirit is breathing in and let the wind carry me to the garments that can deliver that look and feeling in my closet.”

“Justin Theroux is the ideal team partner to have. He's a writer. He's a director.”

“Yoga is excellent! It not only keeps me healthy physically but mentally and spiritually also.”

“Storytelling is my true passion.”

“It's not everybody that can handle firing Denzel Washington or coming to blows and saying, 'This is what's happening because I said so.' Usually, it's the reverse.”

“You just want to keep going, keep putting your best foot forward, keep putting one foot in front of the other.”

“When you're dealing with a small community, every person counts.”

“If you just stay with it and take it scene by scene, episode by episode, all of the questions that I have, as an actor, tend to answer themselves.”

“The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.”

“I participated in every spring musical my school did while attending: 'Pippin,' 'Little Shop of Horrors,' 'Once on This Island,' and 'Hair.' The great thing about those projects was that I was able to work with my peers who were allowed to work professionally and gained some insight as to what it might be like to work with pros.”

“That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.”

“Neither my MFA from Yale School of Drama nor my BFA from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University make me any different from other actors in film, television, or theatre.”