Lily Gladstone

“I hope that we will honor our ancestors and our future generations.”

“Whenever I come to Oklahoma, I set aside a week or two to hang out and visit people.”

“Guest star appearances are great because you still develop a full character, but you just drop in for a little nugget of a bigger tapestry.”

“That's what art allows us to do, is process things.”

“My path to acting started with watching a lot of movies, because I grew up in a very rural place, that was snowed in for a good part of the year.”

“As a Montanan, a significant chunk of your life growing up is spent in a car, traveling. People say it's a small town with really long streets.”

“I was always told by my ballet teachers that I was their actress because I was very performative in my roles. I wasn't getting cast in roles like the Sugar Plum Fairy. I was getting the Rat King.”

“My dad saw early on when I was onstage that I just thrived. When I was nine, it was the worst of it. I was struggling to keep friendships, bullied a lot. And he very matter-of-factly said, 'Oh, it's OK, honey. They're all going to be your friend someday when you win your Oscar.'”

“I remember being 9 years old and just being a little disheartened, seeing how often a lot of my boy cousins were misgendered because they wore their hair long.”

“I advocate for other people before I advocate for myself. Even just making dinner reservations, I count the whole party and I forget myself.”

“When I'm in a group of men, I don't feel like a man.”

“He had a name that had a woman's name in it. I'd never met my grandfather. I wouldn't say that he was nonbinary in gender, but he was given a woman's name because he kind of carried himself, I guess, the way that women who have that name do.”

“I think there's a perception from the city that the country is a very hostile environment. And that's not the case, necessarily.”

“Vulnerability is what makes your work accessible to people.”

“I hope that we will see more diversity and inclusion in the industry and in the media.”

“We're matrilocal, so women own everything. With the Blackfeet, the only thing a man owns is his saddle. He doesn't even own his horses. So, if he screws up, the sign that she doesn't want him there anymore is he'll come home and there will be a saddle sitting outside the home.”

“I like spending time in the garden with my houseplants. I'm a plant mom.”

“Sheila Tousey: there's no actress alive that surpasses Sheila's talent.”

“I always knew I'd struggle to be cast in commercial and studio films and that my niche would be independent film and theater. But... that doesn't really go too far sometimes.”

“I've been asked since my undergrad if I want my characters to be limited by ethnicity. So far, it hasn't helped me back.”