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Being on a low-budget film is difficult enough, and you may as well be working on something that you really believe in and you really love, and for me, that's to play different characters, to play different roles, and challenge myself.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Love, Play, May, Different Characters

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Performer, Tear, Little Bit, Neurosis

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Do Your Best, Always, Very, Revolves

Ruth Gordon was such a delight to watch in 'Rosemary's Baby' after I had first seen her in 'Harold and Maude.' And Ellen Burstyn is a hero of mine from 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore,' The Exorcist,' 'Requiem For A Dream.' These women impacted me greatly as an actress.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Here, Ruth, Alice, Harold

I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Black, Always, Horror, Categories

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven't done before.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Love, Always, Very, Scripts

I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

City, Bad, Tapes, Scripts

I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Been, Horror Movie, Very, Avid

I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan, and my boyfriend is Taiwanese, and he doesn't like to read. He had this Jackie Chan book, and I was asking him questions about him, and he didn't know, and I said, 'What do you mean you don't know? You have the Jackie Chan autobiography right there on the bookshelf!'

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Book, Asking, Boyfriend, Taiwanese

I'll continue doing horror until the day I die. I love it; it's so much fun.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Love, Die, Doing, So Much Fun

I did attend a convention with the production company behind 'The Woman' and 'Jug Face,' and I loved it and thought, 'I have to come back, as they are so much fun!' But those tickets are really expensive, and you're buying merchandise, and you want autographed pictures with people, so it's kind of like Disney World.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Woman, Behind, Tickets, So Much Fun

In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Comedy, Other, Over, Laughing

Angela Bettis - I can't say enough about her. She is just an incredible presence. She is very petite and soft, while she still has this power that floats around her.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Very, Still, Floats, Presence

I remember on 'Jug Face' working with Chad Crawford Kinkle, who is as sweet as they come. He told me someone had given him advice that if you're making a drama, you basically need to put your main protagonist through living hell in every scene, and then you'll have a successful film. He laughed it off until watching me every day!

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Advice, I Remember, Through, Jug

There's a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Joy, Horror, Narrative, Element

I grew up watching Sean Young films with my father; we've always been huge fans of hers. A surprising fact is that she loves to work on comedies, which was great for me to hear, because then I could ask her a million questions about 'Fatal Instinct,' which was a VHS I wore out from the video store.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Fact, Young, Been, Comedies

It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Work, Important, Always, Best Work

When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Suffering, Horror, Guy, Good Guy

There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, 'Let me help you. I've been there before.'

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Been, Misery, Before, Hopefully

'Imitation Girl' is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She's one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced 'Pod.'

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Girl, Founders, Directed, Imitation

It's kind of wild for me any time anybody says, 'I love this movie with Lauren Ashley Carter. I'm going to watch all her other movies,' because that's exactly the way I feel as a fan of other actors.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Love, Movie, Other, Carter

In real life, I'm a large character, and I need the space and platform to be large.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Character, Need, Large, Real Life

Sean Young is such a sweetheart and just absolutely lovely. From day one, she was just very easy to be around. She's definitely a 'mom' and very much a girl's girl. She likes talking about makeup and the business and just being a woman.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Makeup, Sweetheart, Very, Sean

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Always, Performer, Plays, Elementary School

Auditioning is a lot of fun for me.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Fun, Me, Lot, Auditioning

For horror movies, it's great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can't calm my face down, and so it's really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Doing, Big, Cop, Genre

I have to be vulnerable to allow myself to give the best performance I ,and that doesn't stop in between takes, and it doesn't stop when I am finished for the night.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Myself, Give, Allow, Vulnerable

'Pod' was a significantly larger crew with Ilium Pictures co-producing. 'Darling' was bare bones. We had less than half of the crew that we had for 'Pod.'

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Larger, Darling, Half, Bare

I love film very much. It's very special to me, and seeing how it all turns out is always just a magical moment for me.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Love, Always, Very, Magical

I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.

- Lauren Ashley Carter

Love, Comedy, I Love, Favourite

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