Mireille Enos Quotes

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

- Mireille Enos

People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.

- Mireille Enos

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

- Mireille Enos

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

- Mireille Enos

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

- Mireille Enos

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

- Mireille Enos

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

- Mireille Enos

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.

- Mireille Enos

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

- Mireille Enos

When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

- Mireille Enos

Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.

- Mireille Enos

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.

- Mireille Enos

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

- Mireille Enos

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

- Mireille Enos

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

- Mireille Enos

I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.

- Mireille Enos

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

- Mireille Enos

I like laughter around me.

- Mireille Enos

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

- Mireille Enos

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

- Mireille Enos

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

- Mireille Enos

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

- Mireille Enos