A biography for Danielle Macdonaldhasn’t been written yet.
“People say things unintentionally, not realizing that it could hurt someone's feelings because they've just never experienced what you have.”
“When I first watched '8 Mile,' it was amazing. It got me. I loved it.”
“None of my family is in the industry. But I watched movies like an insane person when I was a child. I used to make my dad stop at the video store every time we drove past it, and you had to drive past the video store to get to our house.”
“I have a dog and a cat, and they are best friends.”
“When you rap, you're using all of yourself.”
“'Priscilla' was made in 1994, and I think it was kind of daring for its time.”
“I think confidence comes with age and experience, honestly.”
“Emma Watson was a super-starstruck moment.”
“How many people get to say they recorded a song with Dolly Parton and Jennifer Aniston?”
“You can drive your own self crazy. You don't have to be in a bad situation or be bullied every day to feel this way. I was constantly judging myself. That's really the thing that gets you.”
“There aren't plus-sized teens represented in film who aren't made the butt of a joke.”
“I actually got a visa through a job that fell through, and it allowed me to move out here and start from scratch. There's more opportunity in America for girls like me, I guess.”
“I love acting, and I'm going to continue doing that.”
“Honestly, a lot of the time the character roles are the best roles.”
“There aren't often plus size, very real normal women in film. It's never their story.”
“I love Octavia Spencer. I love what she has to say as a human, and I love her career and the variety of characters she has played.”
“I had agents in Australia; I just never had any auditions. And if you can't audition, then you can't work. I studied there. I did classes there. I learned how to act. Growing up there, I discovered my love for acting, but I just wasn't getting the opportunities to work professionally.”
“I'm not musical in any way.”
“I wanted to act; wherever that was, I was happy. It just happened to be in America for me.”
“I play a girl called Patti in the film 'Patti Cake$,' and she's a girl from New Jersey, and she dreams of being a famous rapper.”