Rhona Mitra
Quotes

I'll be updating this page from time to time so check back when you can. These are some of my favorite Rhona Quotes:

Rhona on why she prefers doing movies to TV roles now: "The movie parts I get tend to be broader, more physical, more play-acting than the TV ones. And staying in one place, playing the same part over and over again can get into your head. You become a puppet."

On chosing a career in acting: "If I hadn't got into trouble in some way (as a teen) I'd probably have four babies and would be living in the countryside in England complaining that my husband was working too many hours in the city. Instead, I've been riding around on horses in New Zealand for 'Underworld' pretending I'm slaying wolves. I think I made the right choice."

On wearing fangs and being a vampire in Underworld: "My nephew thinks I'm brilliant and he absolutely fully believes that I'm a vampire and I go out and I kill werewolves. He says to me, over breakfast, over some Cheerios the other morning, he's like, 'So, killed anybody this week, Auntie Rhona?'"

On meeting screaming fans at 2008 Comic Con: "Oh, it was really lovely actually. They're really sweet. Everyone seems just very welcoming. You can't really see past the first few feet. Then you look further and you're like, Oh my God, there's like 5000 people here. It felt quite warm, cuddly."

On what inspired her to get into acting: "I met Judi Dench when I was a really young girl. Her daughter was at school with me when I was about 7 years old. She made an incredible impact on me as a person really. But at 7 do you really know what an actress is? I didn't know, but she stuck in my memory as an incredibly strong female figure."

On attending an all girls convent school: "Who can survive an all-girls boarding school that's run by nuns? I mean, honestly -- even the straightest, sanest person would probably find a way to get in trouble. And if I hadn't gotten into trouble in some way, I'd probably be four babies in, living in the countryside in England with a couple of Labradors, complaining that my husband was working too many hours in the city. I'm riding around on horses in New Zealand pretending that I'm slaying wolves. I think I made the right choice. ... From convent to werewolf slayer."

On Doing Stunts in films: "To get the opportunity to do reverse 180 hand brake turns in a bentley and learn how to wrestle and head butt and sword fight. To horse ride with fangs and eyes in and get paid for it. Its either your cup or tea or its not. Its a big cup of tea for me. I love it. I love all of it."

On Lara Croft Tomb Raider: "People thought I was her. Women would write me letters blaming me for their breakups."

On James Spader: "Mischief seems to go very well with us."

On Scott Wolf from Party of Five: "He's so cute! He's lovely! And you know, he had been on the show for six years, so he was just a pro. A very generous human being."

On playing a doctor on Gideon's Crossing: "I was an intern on Party of Five, and now I'm a resident. And the most bizarre thing is that my father is actually a surgeon. And it's a very similar setup to Gideon. It's strange. He has five kids and none of us took on his career."

On getting a boob job: "We had this Australian girl staying with us when I was a kid and my mum used to say what great tits she had, and I thought, yeah, I'm going to have great tits when I'm older too. But they just never arrived so I decided that I should go out and get some myself anyway.

On being a tomboy: "I'm not really a girlie. I can be once in a while but then I tend to fall off the heels...I revert back to being immature a lot."

On clubbing and drugs: "I was a complete loon, but I don't regret a bit of it."

On playing Flora (Man Who Made Husbands Jealous): "It wasn't hard to play Flora because so much of what she goes through actually happened to me. I did a hell of a lot of E's and there was a lot of cocaine too. Sometimes I think I should be dead. It was nasty and sordid."

On recording an album with Dave Stewart: "I was pinching myself the whole time, it was the most bonkers thing ever."

On sky-diving: "It's not for the adrenaline buzz, it's more of a will-power thing. I was interested in how much fear I would have and it's not a lot actually."

On periods of unemployment as an actress: "I've traveled in third world countries. I've seen the other half. I know my plate is really, really brimming over. I couldn't possibly begin to fathom letting that stuff get to me."

On being naughty and mischevious: "I'm always in trouble, more or less. It's weird how people always think that trouble, or the side path, is something that's incorrect."

On why she was fired as Lara Croft: "I breathed stuff into her they never wanted. They got the wrong girl to do the job."

On her surgeon father: "He's a genius. I can't begin to comprehend the intricacies of where his mind is on a day-to-day level. I'm faking him and what he does."

On her personal phobias: "Wind chimes. I had to ask the neighbors to take theirs down. I hate being that person, but it drives me nuts."

On fitness and maintaining weight: "I can go between being really defined and riped to being just a little bit squidgy. ... When I need to whip it into gear, I'll weight train twice a year for about six weeks at a time."

On favorite places to eat: "In LA there are two places: Axe in Venice, which is a local serving superb food and at the other end, the Chateau Marmont Hotel for business or fun. In London, I always go back to The Engineer Pub in Primrose Hill. The food and the place are terrific."

On her favorite holiday: "Halloween. We don't celebrate it [in the UK] like you lot do (in the US). I think it's fantastic that grown adults run around going 'What am I going to be?'"

On taking on the Swiss army: "I had the whole Swiss army after me once. I was skiing with friends and we were getting hassled by some guys who wanted us to dance. They ended up calling us dykes and then turned nasty. I kicked one in the ribcage. It turned out that he was with a load of Swiss army guys and they chased us up the road. We ran faster than them though."

On being, or not being, posh: "I could have ended up really posh if I hadn't rebelled against the system and got thrown out [of school]. If you're born into money and have the double-barreled name then you end up with the Labrador, the Range Rover and the house in the country. I've got a very solid Irish mum and my parents didn't pressure me."

On dropping out of school after a year: "There are schools outside of walls. I've taken advantage of those. Insitutions and me don't work together well."

On the sexuality requirements of an actress: "Your package is your package, physically. I can't fight against that. I'm in a business that welcomes sexuality. But it's too easy just to be T and A."

On Catholic school uniforms: "I'd razor blade my collars, draw on my shirts, even have the dogs bite the cuffs off my sweaters to make them look sloppy. I tried everything I could to stand apart from the others."

On being faithful: "I'm very difficult in a relationship. Men get jealous of me travelling. They don't understand that just because I disappear on my own doesn't mean I'm going to shag someone."

On attractions to other women: "Any woman who says she hasn't isn't truly a woman. Even if you don't go as far as doing something physical, you should be able to appreciate the female form. Men are beautiful too, though."

On bizarre fan mail: "I remember receiving a beautifully typed letter from 12 boys in Exeter asking if I'd marry them all. Apparently, I was supposed to be shared on some kind of weekly rota system. I was thinking, 'Hmm, two a day. How am I supposed to manage that?"