Yancy Butler Quotations

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.

People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.

My attitude is, you're paying me - I'm yours. I'll go till I drop.

But soon I perfected the art of stealth drinking.

Had I not stopped going to clubs when I was 14 and almost stopped drinking when I was 15, I would have gotten out to Hollywood and just lost my mind.

Playing the lead character of a comic book, it's scary. You want to please everybody. And certainly we know that that can't happen.

There was definitely some pressure there because, unlike a lot of other comic book characters, my character had never had a voice.

I like to do my own stunt work as much as possible. With the camera work on this film, we really had to do it so that it was me.

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

I'll try anything once.