Author Profile
Taylor Schilling
1984 • American • Actress
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Showing 40 quotesI'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.— Taylor Schilling
I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.— Taylor Schilling
There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.— Taylor Schilling
I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.— Taylor Schilling
So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'— Taylor Schilling
On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do.— Taylor Schilling
I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'— Taylor Schilling
Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.— Taylor Schilling
As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.— Taylor Schilling
I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.— Taylor Schilling
I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.— Taylor Schilling