Top 25 Quotes & Sayings by Melissa George
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Australian actress Melissa George.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.
I go to work, and think 'wow, they pay me for this', and I go home.
I'm very focused when I'm making a movie, but I'm also a fantastic multitasker.
My background is Scottish.
I just thought, 'I want to be an action hero.'
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.
I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.
Mum and dad thought I was going to say I was pregnant. I said oh no, no, I've just been nominated for a Golden Globe. They were like, oh that's lovely, love.
I don't know, I think people who meet me just get pretty much what I am.
No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.
Jennifer Garner and I are very close.
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.
I'd like to work with David Lynch again.
I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.
Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.
I think people who meet me just pretty much get what I am about.
You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it sounds great because it's like reading a book. When you step into that book and you actually have to play it out, for real, it's a totally different ball game.
I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.
When you get the role, it's 'cause you know exactly how to play it, and they know that the way you're playing it is exactly what they want. I never go with a role and say that I need to change anything about it. Otherwise, I wouldn't take it.
I've discovered the best skincare, MV Organic Skincare. I love their Energising 9-Oil Cleanser, Rose Hydrating Mist and Rose Soothing & Protective Moisturiser
If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.
Anything dark and emotionally complex, I'll do it. You're acting, but when you take an acting role, you have to live it. You're living the life of that person.
You've got to pick your roles really carefully. It's a lot more fun to play a layered woman, than just someone where what you see is what you get, by far.
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