• I play a girl named Jordie in bed with my ex-boyfriend. We both have new partners, and the conversation is just like 'What am I doing here?' and why the relationship never worked out.
• I was outside of myself going: 'Whoa, that was kind of sexy.
• It ended up feeling like a choreographed dance.
• We were a lot more nervous going into it. But then, you know, you saw it, it was really tame. It was really important to Doug (Ellin, the creator/executive producer) that it stayed classy, tasteful and innocent. I think that's what makes it so funny and why it worked so well. There was some nervous laughing beforehand, but once the cameras started rolling, we got to work.
• I think love is something you really grow into. But I believe that you can see somebody and really have the desire to get to know them.
• Generally, when I’m in L.A. and I’m not working, I’ll read a script, wake up in the morning, do my excercises, call a friend, go to breakfast, pedicure, manicure. That’s during the down time, which is amazing.
• You know, Entourage is the biggest surprise of my career. It’s never really been my dream to be on a TV series. But every pilot season, my agent wants me to do something. So this time I said, Okay, look, if I do television, I want to do an HBO show.
• Well, of course the great Meryl Streep. I have a handful of actresses that I absolutely look up to like Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I’m a huge Christina Ricci fan. I think as a young actress she’s made such great choices. There’s young actresses like Kirsten Dunst and Reese Witherspoon that have made amazing choices in their career and create this longevity - like you know they’re going to be around for a long, long time and make movies that matter.
• Like I believe…you know, we met and we shared this journey together but I believe we’ll be friends for a long, long, long, long, long time to come. So it was always very easy with him.
• He was so prepared. He was amazing. You would never believe that this was his first starring role. He always knew his lines and he was totally open to playing and changing it up. That's something that seasoned people do.
• Yeah, it absolutely is, because sexy is completely hair, makeup, lighting. Let me tell you, when they're seeing me first thing in the morning, they're not calling me sexy. But perceptions are different for everybody.
• Yeah, I was born in Montreal, and my parents are French, Jewish Moroccan. My mom was born in Casablanca, and my father moved there from Rabat as a kid. That's where they met and married and had my brother. It was then that they decided to leave for Canada.
Emmanuelle Chriqui TV & Filmography
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