Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Lynn Collins.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Viola Lynn Collins is an American actress. She has made television appearances in True Blood (2008), Manhunt: Unabomber (2017) and The Walking Dead (2021–2022), and is recognized for her roles in films such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and John Carter (2012).
I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22.
They're really competitive at drama in Texas.
I'm a trained martial artist. My parents were both martial artists.
The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.
My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.
I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
I started doing karate at four, my parents were karatekas. I stopped when I was 17 and went to Julliard and had a lot of stage combat there.
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.
I think Andrew Stanton is such an amazing, creative mind.
What I do is very spiritual to me. I can't really connect with things unless they are spiritual in nature, so I have to make acting spiritual for myself, and each role a spiritual journey for me.
The truth for me is that I've been doing independent film since the get-go, so that's a big passion of mine, but the big ones are really fun, too. I like my world to be eclectic.
I'm Irish and Cherokee Indian. I can't faint.
In my career, I've really wanted to sort of be a morpher and not show my own identity.
Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman.
I went to Julliard where they use a lot of voice and speech exercises.
I’m an entrepreneur at heart. I’m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.