Laurie Metcalf Quotes

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.

Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

I don't like working in front of a camera.

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.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

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

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.