I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy.
Michelle ForbesIโve discovered a new affliction; itโs called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what Iโm working on and I tell them Orphan Blackโฆthey usually clutch a part of my body and their eyes go wide and a little crazy. People are MAD for this show. As am I.
Michelle ForbesAs an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again.
Michelle ForbesEveryone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.
Michelle ForbesWhen I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing.
Michelle ForbesIt's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.
Michelle Forbes