Lauren Ashley Carter Quotes

I always tell people, ‘If you say you don’t like horror, it just means that you haven’t found the right movie.’

It’s important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.

I have to be vulnerable to allow myself to give the best performance I ,and that doesn’t stop in between takes, and it doesn’t stop when I am finished for the night.

I love comedy. Comedy is one of my favourite things to do.

There’s a certain joy in taking a dramatic narrative and then adding that element of horror to it.

There are awful things that happen, dreams get crushed, you build yourself back up again, and then there are, hopefully, incredible partners in misery that say, ‘Let me help you. I’ve been there before.’

I’m a horror movie fan; I’m an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.

In theater, one of the biggest problems when you’re rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other.

When you’re the good guy in a horror film, you’re usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.

With the performances, I have been very fortunate to pick things and to find scripts that I really love. I always try to do something that I haven’t done before.

Sean Young is such a sweetheart and just absolutely lovely. From day one, she was just very easy to be around. She’s definitely a ‘mom’ and very much a girl’s girl. She likes talking about makeup and the business and just being a woman.

I try to keep myself busy creatively; it’s for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further.

I love film very much. It’s very special to me, and seeing how it all turns out is always just a magical moment for me.

I’ve always said if you’re comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories.

‘Pod’ was a significantly larger crew with Ilium Pictures co-producing. ‘Darling’ was bare bones. We had less than half of the crew that we had for ‘Pod.’

Auditioning is a lot of fun for me.

Angela Bettis – I can’t say enough about her. She is just an incredible presence. She is very petite and soft, while she still has this power that floats around her.

I’ll continue doing horror until the day I die. I love it; it’s so much fun.

It’s kind of wild for me any time anybody says, ‘I love this movie with Lauren Ashley Carter. I’m going to watch all her other movies,’ because that’s exactly the way I feel as a fan of other actors.

A little bit of neurosis is OK as a performer, but untethered, it can tear one apart.

I grew up watching Sean Young films with my father; we’ve always been huge fans of hers. A surprising fact is that she loves to work on comedies, which was great for me to hear, because then I could ask her a million questions about ‘Fatal Instinct,’ which was a VHS I wore out from the video store.

In elementary school, I was always writing little plays for my friends to be in. I was much more of a director than a performer.

Whenever I write, I write very dialogue-heavy things because I love to force my characters to interact with one another.

For horror movies, it’s great because I know exactly what I am doing and what should be done. But for a cop drama, I can’t calm my face down, and so it’s really nice to be able to be in this genre where nothing is too much, and no one yells at me for having big eyes.

‘Imitation Girl’ is a feature written and directed by Natasha Kermani. She’s one of the founders of Illium Pictures who co-produced ‘Pod.’