Quotes from Mireille Enos

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older. They're there now, and I'm just not going to panic.

I'm a black belt in tae kwon do.

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

Every role that you play comes with its own set of challenges.

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.

The way that being on the job works on your adrenaline highs and the crashes that come after the adrenaline highs. It really takes over your life.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

When actors are the real deal, all that star whatever goes right out the window and you're there to tell a story.

I'm really grateful for how my career has unfolded.

I don't know how people chew gum all day long.

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.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

I can't worry about whether roles will be there for me when I'm older.

AMC has a track record for finding actors who have been working actors but not names yet and casting them.

I personally love a cliffhanger - I think it just extends the pleasure of viewing.

I know as an actor there is a certain liberation auditioning for a role that has no beauty requirements.

The truth is I quite like to dress in jeans and a woolly jumper.

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

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.

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.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

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.

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.