Gina Bellman Quotes & Sayings

“I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.”

“Any friendship or relationship is about a language.”

“It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.”

“I've never worked in my natural accent, having studied so hard to get rid of it when I moved to England as a child where I was bullied at school for 'talking funny.'”

“There is nothing worse than sitting in the make-up trailer knowing that the whole crew are twiddling their thumbs waiting for you to change your hair from straight to curly or up to down. Sometimes it can't be avoided.”

“Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.”

“I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.”

“Every name in a TV show has to be run by the legal department first.”

“Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.”

“French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.”