Laurie Metcalf famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Growing Up #Illinois #Southern
I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Theatre #Hours #Minutes
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Directors #Actors
I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Creativity #Energy #Rehearsal
I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Acting #Theater #Practicals
I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Character #Play #Range
I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Long #Office #Secretary
I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Play #Giving #Interesting
Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Thinking #Lucky #So Lucky
When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Real #Home
Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Real #Editors #Together
I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Fun #Luxury #Space
When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Scratches #Next #Ends
Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#World #Theater
Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Passion #Play #People
I don't like working in front of a camera.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Cameras
I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
-- Laurie Metcalf

#Running #Naked #Shy

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