Mireille Enos famous quotes

03-24-2025

My mother is French, my father is Texan.
-- Mireille Enos

#Mother #Father #Texan
I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.
-- Mireille Enos

#Grateful #Careers
I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.
-- Mireille Enos

#Perfect #Lucky #Married
The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.
-- Mireille Enos

#Jeans #Dresses #Truth Is
When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.
-- Mireille Enos

#Stars #Real #Stories
A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.
-- Mireille Enos

#People #Plot #Kind
Crime shows are really popular, in general, but usually, at the end of every episode, you have to let go of the people that you've invested in and then, the next week, get somebody else.
-- Mireille Enos

#Letting Go #People #Next
I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.
-- Mireille Enos

#Drama #Done #Stuff
It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.
-- Mireille Enos

#Focus #Secret #Stories
People say to me, 'Oh, being a mother must make you a better actor,' and I think, 'Well, I never sleep, I have very little time to think about anything except when I'm actually there.' I wonder whether that makes me a better actor. I think it must on some level.
-- Mireille Enos

#Mother #Sleep #Thinking
I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.
-- Mireille Enos

#Black #Belts #Black Belt
I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.
-- Mireille Enos

#Thinking #Pleasure #Cliffhanger
I like laughter around me.
-- Mireille Enos

#Laughter
I was sitting in a caf in London with my husband and baby daughter when my phone rang with the news! I feel so incredibly lucky and honored to be nominated, and so grateful to be part of the family that is The Killing.
-- Mireille Enos

#Daughter #Baby #Husband
When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.
-- Mireille Enos

#Dad #Car #Matter
I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.
-- Mireille Enos

#Requirements #Roles #Actors
My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.
-- Mireille Enos

#Dad #Guy #Sensible
I don't know how people chew gum all day long.
-- Mireille Enos

#Long #People #Gum
AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.
-- Mireille Enos

#Names #Track #Records
Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.
-- Mireille Enos

#Play #Challenges #Roles
I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.
-- Mireille Enos

#Worry #Roles #Be There For Me
I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.
-- Mireille Enos

#Houston #Grew #Grew Up
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
-- Mireille Enos

#New York #Years #Interesting

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