Carice van Houten Quotes

It's a big responsibility to be the main part of a film because if you don't like me, you have a problem for two-and-a-half hours.

I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.

I think I'm a very intuitive actress.

In theater, the scenes I like the most are the ones where you are there and you cannot talk.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.