A biography for Karla Cromehasn’t been written yet.
“You, Me and The Apocalypse' is epic!”
“It's really important that people don't view success as a competition.”
“I'm not much of a risk taker, I'm more of an arty farty person.”
“People in TV get too worried about making things accessible but I don't think all of the viewing population want everything to be sanitised and dumbed down.”
“I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.”
“I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.”
“The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.”
“There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.”
“I think at any point in your career as a creative, whether you're an actor, writer whatever it's a real turning point when someone who's not you turns around and validates your work it gives you a lot of confidence.”
“The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.”
“I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.”
“You need to be able to maintain a healthy voice and fit body to be able to give performances in a big theatre night after night.”
“In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.”
“I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.”
“I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.”
“Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it.”
“I'm a bit awkward.”
“Getting a casting means that a lot of people have put a lot of faith in you and your abilities, and you constantly think 'I hope I don't let them down.'”
“One of the joys about my job is that I've been able to constantly move and keep changing. The whole point of being an actor is you change your exterior everytime you do a new job and that's what keeps it exciting.”
“I don't think comedic parts come naturally to me.”