Eliza Scanlen

I guess my sense of humour leans more towards irony and tongue-in-cheek performance. ”

My mom usually does my self-tapes, and we've built a kind of shorthand with one another... Also, just having fun with it and not feeling restricted in your space and giving yourself enough space filming the shot to move around, things like that. ”

I grew up watching Amy in 'Enchanted'; I was told that if you had to meet your first famous person you'd be lucky if it were Amy Adams. ”

I think the weird thing about playing a psychopath is that you really have to believe that you, as the character, did nothing wrong. ”

A part of the bigger picture is much more interesting to me than just bringing attention or focus on myself or my character. ”

I'm vegan, so obviously there is not a lot to eat in Georgia. ”

I think it's really easy to approach a touchy subject head-on, but 'Sharp Objects' does it in a way that's subtle and it presents mental illness as something quite common and normalized. It's so common and shouldn't be a conversation we're afraid to talk about. ”

I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a perverse way. ”

When I was seven, my mom took my twin sister and me to a play. I remember being fascinated about life onstage. ”

I remember being a kid and wanting to be so many different things. There was even one point that I wanted to be a clarinet player, and I had never even touched a clarinet, in my life. And then, I wanted to be a chef. And then, I wanted to be a vet. It's hard to decide who you're gonna be, as weird as that sounds, because we all do it. ”