Claudia Black Quotes

• Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Believe, Often

• The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they’re forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Family, Uncategorized

  Tags in Night, Friends, Hope

• One of the difficulties of not knowing for so long whether we were doing a fifth season or not was that we weren’t really allowed to go out shopping for work.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficulties, Really, Season

• My boyfriend’s idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, ‘Go!’ Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn’t humiliating, not at all.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Storm, Middle, Lesson

• People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Actor, Deal

• I feel that I’m at my best as a person and that I’m coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I’ll be okay.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Best, Think

• Don’t think I’d really want to be a mortician. Wouldn’t be getting much back.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Really

• I love to cook, it’s one of my most favorite things in the world. That’s why I stopped being a vegetarian – I didn’t want to serve people things I hadn’t tasted myself.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Myself, Favorite

• I love to hang out and talk to people on set, especially when I start a new job to get to know them. I like to learn things from the crew so I sit around and ask them technical questions, when I think of them.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Job

  Tags in People, Think, Around, Questions

• Trust in yourself.

  Claudia Black

  Topics in Trust

Claudia Black (10)

Birth:	11th October, 1972
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actress

About

Claudia Lee Black was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She is an Australian actress, known for her portrayals of Aeryn Sun in the science fiction series Farscape and Vala Mal Doran in the science fiction series Stargate SG-1, as well as Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery in the film Pitch Black. She portrayed an intersex woman named Jill Mayhew in the Australian television series Good Guys Bad Guys. She also had a leading role in the New Zealand soap opera City Life playing the role of Greek lawyer Angela Kostapas. Black gained international recognition for her role in Farscape, and was nominated for a Saturn Award in the Best Actress category in both 2001 and 2002, and won the award in 2005. Since 2007, Black has also been a prolific video game voice actress.

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