Top 43 Quotes & Sayings by Karla Crome

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Karla Crome.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Karla Crome

Karla Patsy Crome is a British actress and writer, best known for her work on Sky Atlantic's Hit & Miss, playing series regular Jess on E4's Misfits, and appearances in a number of other television series and films, mainly in the United Kingdom, including the award-winning Murder. In 2012, Screen International named Crome as one of the "UK Stars of Tomorrow".

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 love crime series.
Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual. — © Karla Crome
Certainty regarding your career aged 15 is very unusual.
I don't want to sound like a broken record but I do tire of the reality TV thing.
The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run - it changes each time.
I'm not much of a risk taker, I'm more of an arty farty person.
It's really important that people don't view success as a competition.
With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.
I'm really into the detective drama genre.
I never had the guts to go to Calais. I didn't see for myself the conditions people were living in, or hear their stories firsthand. That doesn't sit well with my conscience.
I'm a pretty positive person, so a bad mood is quite a big deal.
I have a camp fascination with all things musical theatre - I've even got the box set of 'Britannia High.'
For women to succeed in politics, business and entrepreneurial ventures they have to battle against a stereotype of being heartless and unfeminine.
The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch. — © Karla Crome
The power I would like is to be able to turn off negative emotions and bad moods with the flick of a switch.
I briefly flirted with the idea of more stable career choices but they never excited me. I know it's a bit of a cliche but I remember doing school plays in primary school and feeling at home on the stage.
I find it difficult to be comfortable with anything for the same reasons that anyone gets nervous about something - because they want it to be good and they don't want to let anyone down.
I'm a bit awkward.
There are decisions I could have made, moves I could have made, that would have got me seen more. I do it because I enjoy the craft and the challenge of trying to make something that doesn't exist come alive, and that's what I'm in it for.
It's important to find your tribe. If you can find people you can share ideas with, people you're mutually stimulated by it helps you move forward.
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.'
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've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.
I don't think comedic parts come naturally to me.
You, Me and The Apocalypse' is epic!
There are a lot of period dramas out there but not many opportunities for a mixed-race actress to play a period role.
As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.
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 am a notorious and constant worrier. I'm worried if I'm not worried.
I'm that person at school who always had a cold and an eye patch and asthma.
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.
It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts. — © Karla Crome
It should be very normal to see people of different races and ethnic minorities playing different parts.
Writing 'If Chloe Can' has taken me on an amazing journey: from launching the event at Downing Street, to a performance to 1,000 inner-city school girls at a West End theatre, then to an audience of hundreds more at the Royal Society of Chemistry.
I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.
I've always wanted to play a cop, desperately.
In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.
I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.
Some people think all young actors should come up through the ranks of theatre. I don't necessarily think that's true.
I've not been able to finish any project where I haven't had other people involved making me do it really.
I've got to be honest, with every job I do there's a part of me, that child in me, that goes, 'This is the one.' And it rarely actually is.
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.
I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer. — © Karla Crome
I think Dennis Kelly's a really good writer.
I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.
I love the fantasy genre, I'd love to be a member of the X-Men.
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