In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there’s an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
New Jersey is very big. There are different areas of New Jersey. There is North New Jersey. There is like the center. There are a lot of actors from New Jersey that don’t speak with a New Jersey accent. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there’s an element of you that you bring to it. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
If you’re an English actor, and you’re asked to do an episode – especially the Christmas episode – of ‘Downton Abbey,’ you can’t turn it down. It’s like, ‘Of course!’ Janet Montgomery Read Quote
My background is more horror or thriller, and you can’t get better than horror fans, as far as I’m concerned. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
You have to be completely in the character, and that’s so hard to do. That’s why, when they call, ‘Cut!,’ you often feel yourself shift. Unless you’re Daniel Day Lewis, who stays in character all the time, there’s a switch that happens. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
I’m not a reality TV star. I pride myself on witnessing, watching people, studying people, and being able to recreate that and create a human being. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn’t want to go back to Puritan times. I’m far too outspoken to be a woman in Puritan times. Janet Montgomery Read Quote
