Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Lela Loren
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lela Loren.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
'Power' usually starts principal photography around mid September, and the first table read is always like one big family reunion. The most common comment we hear is how 'well rested' everyone looks... something that can't be said by the end of the season.
There's a bizarre comfort and safety in doing your last and most intimate scenes with the actor you've worked most closely.
Now, everyone has their talents, but working with props is not one of mine.
My secret skill, if it even counts as one, is saying really crass things that sometimes end up as dialogue coming from other character's mouths. My inner salty sailor is alive and well - the only problem is most of the writers on our show are just as inappropriate, so at the end of the day, it's hard to tell who came up with the line.
'Power' is a beast to produce. Everyone behind the scenes brings a thoughtfulness and dauntless work ethic day in and day out.
When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!
'Power' is Andy Bean's first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!
I've always found men to be incredible allies, particularly with their perspective.
It's a terrifying feeling when you have to do multiple takes of a tricky scene because the focus puller cant keep a sharp image.
Everybody has their own agenda, and that makes 'Power' a dark world. There aren't any really clean characters.
I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.
When we are filming, it often feels like we're flying blind. As an actor, you have no idea if your choices are right or if they work. Some scenes feel like a complete Hail Mary. Imagine you're blindfolded and cook a massive Thanksgiving feast with only new recipes - without getting to taste any of them along the way.
I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.
I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.
Sometimes you have to let your life fall apart and let it come back together on its own and learn to care for yourself in a different way.
There's the laws of society and morality and then there's the laws of the heart.
I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
I don't feel like I've ever subscribed to the stereotypical notion of success. I've always equated success with having integrity, conducting yourself with compassion and honesty, and following your heart despite whether or not you ever make any money at it.
I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.
In an industry still dominated by men, working with a female director on an episode written by a woman, helmed by a female showrunner, all while doing scenes with your screen sister is like getting to see the big five at the wild animal park. It's awesome.
Death marks our careers as actors - it's often what flings us back into unemployment, the unknown, the insecurity that is the true constant in our profession... and it must be celebrated.
One of the things I love about the character development in 'Power' is Courtney A. Kemp's subversive use of stereotype.
Professional creativity requires more than inspiration, talent, and discipline - it requires an endurance that few are aware of and even fewer have.
We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.
If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that's supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story.
Women could never beat men physically. So we have to be stronger in other ways.
The U.S. is a rainbow of people with an endless scope of stories. My hope is that writing stories about people of color will become instinctual rather than something to be pushed for.
I've noticed in the Caribbean culture, the women aren't submissive - they're very fiery.
I had fallen in love once with someone, and I remember it being so distinct, where after the first time they'd hug me, I never wanted another man to ever touch me ever again.
I'm from Sacramento, and I have no idea what growing up in a city is like.
You don't actually need confidence or good self-esteem to be successful. You just need to have courage.
The power of sexual attraction is a real thing.
Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.
While I resonate deeply with my maternal cultural heritage, I identify as American.
Usually we have pick-up shots to film after all the main work is done; sometimes we even do them after our wrap party. Just like when you're packing up and moving, it's the little things that end up taking the most time, and there is no romance in the clean up.
There is a deep camaraderie of insecurity between us actors. You rehash choices you've made among those who are close to you and inevitably bang your head against the wall when you finally figure out the scene... a day after you shot it!
I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
One of the wonderful things about 'Power' and why fans often say it makes their heart race is it's set up like a horror film because the audience is, like, four or five steps ahead of the characters.
To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.
I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.
Time seems to slow down after the winter holiday. New York loses all of its winter romance and is just cold.
Shane Johnson and I coincidently went to Whitman College. This is notable because Whitman is teeny-tiny, with only 1,200 students. He graduated the spring before I started, so we didn't know each other.
I love evening tuberoses. My mother used to have tuberoses in her garden, and in the summers in Sacramento, it would get really hot and then cool down in the evenings. You'd walk up the driveway, and it made it feel like 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
In the world of 'Power,' no good deed goes unpunished. I don't really look at it as karma in the world of 'Power.' Whenever any character thinks they're on safe ground, they get the world pulled up from under them.
Enrique Muricano isn't afraid to try something new, to take risks, to possibly fail, and in turn, set himself apart.
Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn't happen with Puerto Ricans, because you're a commonwealth.
Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.
I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.
I think the biggest lesson is the common one that gets in the way of most of us as artists - there are these messages in society that if you aren't hitting certain metrics, then you're not successful and you're not valid.
I love to ask people questions. I want to know everything about them, even things that may be seemingly socially inappropriate.
I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.
The thing is, if you're going to take the artistic path, you sort of have to make peace with the idea or the possibility that you may never make any money or get any acknowledgment or accolades for what you're doing.
As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.
Love is still something I'm learning about.
I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.
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