Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Robin Tunney

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Robin Tunney.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Robin Tunney is an American actress. Tunney made her film debut in the comedy Encino Man (1992) and rose to prominence with leading roles in the cult films Empire Records (1995) and The Craft (1996). Her performance in Niagara, Niagara (1997) won her acclaim and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She had leading roles in the films End of Days (1999), Supernova and Vertical Limit. Tunney earned critical acclaim for playing Veronica Donovan on Prison Break (2005–2006) and Teresa Lisbon on the television series The Mentalist (2008–2015).

American - Actress | Born: June 19, 1972

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I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen.

Robin Tunney

I'm a firm believer that actors take to work who they aren't at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Robin Tunney

People do eventually see something that's quality.

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In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.

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A film's success or failure is strictly on the director's shoulders.

Robin Tunney

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy.

Robin Tunney

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them.

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I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Robin Tunney

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like.

Robin Tunney

I've been doing this long enough that you can tell when people have seen you in something they didn't enjoy, and when they have seen you in something they actually enjoyed.

Robin Tunney

People work really hard to get to a certain point. But they have to work just as hard to stay there.

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The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

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I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

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I've quoted Lost in America several times.

Robin Tunney

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

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I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

Robin Tunney

After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.

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I'm attracted to roles where I don't have to wear makeup.

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I'm really proud to have been in The Craft. I will always be that chick from The Craft, no matter what I do.

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This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages.

Robin Tunney

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

Robin Tunney

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife.

Robin Tunney

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

Robin Tunney

I always try to be careful when an actor who is like 70 walks onto my set at work, I don't want them to get called in five hours early or block shoot something. I think you need to treat them with respect and dignity.

Robin Tunney

I don't know if directors go, 'Hey! We've got another suicide-let's call Robin Tunney! It's weird, but they're all different, and I guess it gives the characters some kind of power... At least I play women who are strong enough to take the power into their own hands! And kill themselves! So many women in films just shoot themselves in the head anyway, because they're not really there for any reason.

Robin Tunney

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

Robin Tunney

You don't make movies to win awards. You make movies because you want people to see them.

Robin Tunney

I usually play disenfranchised youth

Robin Tunney

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well

Robin Tunney

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

Robin Tunney

After I read all the medical journals and watched all the documentaries, I still didn't understand the physical sensation of ticking and where it comes from and what it feels like

Robin Tunney

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

Robin Tunney

Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy

Robin Tunney

I went to Catholic high school, so my being in this [the craft] is not going to make my grandmother very happy. It's funny, because I was the only one who is Catholic in it. You have this thing in mass where you have to genuflect before you go into the pew, so I said you have to do this [for a scene] and they said why, and I said because you have to; I don't know why, it's a rule. Or like instinct. It's funny they set in a Catholic school. I went to St. Ignatius College Prep - "Where Modesty is our Policy."

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I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

Robin Tunney

I haven't really done a lot of comedies. I don't know why, because I really like them

Robin Tunney