Top 25 Daniela Ruah Quotes

When you go to an audition, don’t hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

There’s this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It’s a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.

My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.

I was born here in the States. I moved to Portugal when I was five. And then my parents put me in an English school.

Nature is a beautiful thing – it does what it needs to do when it needs to do it.

The goal is to work as much as possible in projects I respect and that will help me grow.

Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

You’d rather have a good headshot that cost you a little more but that’s going to last than pay less money for a headshot that’s not good enough.

That’s the beauty of the acting world. You can play so many different characters who know and do so many things that you have no idea about as yourself. So I’m a big fan of workshops and classes and learning new things because you can always apply it. It’s your little supply bag of creativity. Keep filling it up.

There’s no better training than working on a soap opera because of the amount of hours, the amount of pages you do a day are unbelievable. It’s the best training I had in terms of discipline.

I was one of the lucky people who found what I loved at a really young age. When I was 16, I got my first job in a Portuguese soap opera, and I realized how much I really loved it.

I would suggest it to any actor to get some movement classes because it really, really makes a difference.

I really thrive being onstage.

As I understand from the real military personnel who I’ve had the opportunity to speak to over the last few years, humor is very much used to diffuse stress. I think that if they were to keep it as serious as the situations often are, there would be a lot more nervous breakdowns.

Early on, my parents noticed an aptitude for being a show-off. I loved attention. I was always saying, ‘Watch me do this, watch me do that,’ which I now realize with my own kids is a phase that most kids go through.

I do go online a lot.

I know a lot of procedurals have huge viewership, yet they’re never nominated for awards.

I was born in Boston, and when I was two and a half, my parents moved to Minneapolis. And then from there, when I was five, we moved back to Portugal. But before that, a lot of family members had come to visit us, and we had been back to Portugal many times because my whole family lived there.

It’s a birthmark called nevus of Ota. It covers the whole white of my eye and darkens it. The square of the eye, the white part, is completely dark on my right eye, not just the iris.

I’d rather have a house that’s nice but usable.

I started my career in Portugal, and the longest I’ve ever played a character was for about a year, which is how long our TV shows last.

There’s a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone‘s face, in terms of flexibility, it’s all kind of the same thing.

No actor in the world started off at the top.

I’m always competitive, but if I didn’t win fair and square, I didn’t win. And I want to win if I’m genuinely better than my competitor.

I’m starting my own family, and there is no other feeling like it.