Elizabeth Meriwether famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Character #Rooms #Alternatives
Funny women are honest women.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Funny Inspirational #Funny Women #Honest
The striking thing about New Girl is that under all the comedy, theres something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Girl #Real #Different
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: Its all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Fun #Mean #Female
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Honesty #Character #Males
If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Writing #Men #Years
People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#People #Want #Boxes
I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Lying #Monsters #Cookies
I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Valentine #Home #Holiday
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Reading #Night #Play
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#People #Care #Tvs
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
-- Elizabeth Meriwether

#Writing #Character #Littles

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