Top 22 Rachael Taylor Quotes

I’m an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I’m a worker by nature. I’m not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don’t think it’s complicated.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart – when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won‘t work out. It’s ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I’ve spent enough time in audition rooms. I don’t want to be doing that in my afterlife.

I like people that are not frightened to say what they think.

If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they’re the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I’m so fascinated by them and can’t get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

I’m all about a flat shoe. It takes a lot to get me into a heel!

For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.

We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men… and one of the reasons why I like ‘Grey‘s Anatomy‘ is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

I don’t really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

I tend not to wear accessories. I’m not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don’t even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.

I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it’s so sporadic, I’m not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

I’m not a collector. I toss things out all the time.

I definitely wouldn’t shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I’m a girl’s girl.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don’t think horror for the sake of it can work unless you’re able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

If I’m going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I’m directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

I’m a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television… there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren’t a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.

I’ve done stuff to pay my dues and that’s what actors are supposed to do, because I was a really bad actor when I was 18 or 20.

I realized that I’m a soft person. I think I’m sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I’m quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

‘Transformers‘ was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.