Lily Rabe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only thing that matters is the theater!
-- Lily Rabe

#Matter #Theater #Things That Matter
Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me... I don't do so well with a lot of time off.
-- Lily Rabe

#Jobs #Night #Months
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
-- Lily Rabe

#Real #Writing #School
So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.
-- Lily Rabe

#Thinking #Sweat #Scare
You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.
-- Lily Rabe

#People #Parent #Want
As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
-- Lily Rabe

#Running #Real #Play
For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.
-- Lily Rabe

#Long #Community #Parent
I can't actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don't think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I'm reading, I think, 'Oh good. That's what's supposed to be happening.
-- Lily Rabe

#Jobs #Reading #Thinking
I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.
-- Lily Rabe

#School #People #Gone
I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
-- Lily Rabe

#Play #Missing #Done
I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.
-- Lily Rabe

#Jobs #Stories #Interviews
Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there's such amazing writing happening on television, and it's a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There's a reason everybody wants that job!
-- Lily Rabe

#Beautiful #Jobs #Writing
One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.
-- Lily Rabe

#Mother #Sorry #Ex Boyfriend
Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
-- Lily Rabe

#Mark
When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.
-- Lily Rabe

#Voice #Way #Tiny
I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
-- Lily Rabe

#Daughter #Mother #Feet
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
-- Lily Rabe

#Children #Community #Parent
Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.
-- Lily Rabe

#People #Special
I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.
-- Lily Rabe

#Jobs #Play #Lucky
To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.
-- Lily Rabe

#Mean #Community #World
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.
-- Lily Rabe

#Soccer #Brother #Focus
I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.
-- Lily Rabe

#Thinking #Want #Panic
No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.
-- Lily Rabe

#Feminist
It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
-- Lily Rabe

#Best Friend #Mother #Parent
It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.
-- Lily Rabe

#Believe #Play #Stories
All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
-- Lily Rabe

#Horse #Rifles #Would Be

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