Lauren Ambrose

“I'm an actor before I'm anything else.”

“I think a woman can come into her power at any age.”

“It's the nature of the freelancer: you never know where you're going to be. You get great opportunities, and you miss great opportunities all the time.”

“New York is so dry.”

“I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.”

“I hope to someday be a great actress and a wonderful performer.”

“I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.”

“Harry Hadden-Paton is just a lovely actor and an incredible person.”

“We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House, in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it.”

“That's the thing about 'Torchwood': It will pull the rug out from under you. It goes along being cute and campy and gay, and then, all of a sudden, it'll nail you.”

“'My Fair Lady' and Eliza Doolittle will go on long after me, and someone else will step into it for their moment. That's what's so beautiful about revivals: There have been so many interpretations, and we're just giving it what we can.”

“On 'Six Feet Under,' I never really had much to do with the actual business, with the embalming stuff. That wasn't really my role.”

“I need to have an outlet, and so I go and make up characters and act and sing and dance like a crazy monkey clown.”