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" A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup. "
Hair
Past
Dream
" Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know. "
Know
Lucky
Just
" 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. "
Interesting
Never
Play
" I am a kind of competitive person. I am competitive with myself. I won't let anything go until I am satisfied with how it is. "
Go
I Am
Kind
" I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material. "
New
Work
Call
" I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today. "
I Am
Me
Today
" I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work. "
Work
Camera
Free
" I don't like working in front of a camera. "
Front
Like
Working
" I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.' "
Thought
Theatre
Lady
" I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that. "
Support
School
Myself
" I like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack. "
Writing
Want
Understand
" I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it. "
Talk
Than
Speak
" I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it. "
Play
Characters
More
" I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there. "
Happy
Room
Always
" I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish. "
I Can
Naked
Run
" I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of 'Mary McGowan.' "
Opportunity
Lucky
Me
" I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level. "
Back
Camera
Energy
" I'm so thrilled to be here on the set of 'Supergirl!' "
Thrilled
Set
Here
" I tend to root for characters who have a lot of negative qualities, but what's driving them forward is their passion. They're on a mission, and maybe their approach is misguided, but you can't fault them for giving 150%. "
Giving
Driving
You
" I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.' "
Thinking
Me
Crazy
" I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. "
Good
Actor
You
" I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre. "
Loved
Minute
Doing
" I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up. "
Soon
Need
Stage
" I was always a secretary in the early days, before we decided we were brave enough to join Equity and see if this thing has any legs. "
Brave
Always
Early
" I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary. "
Long Time
Long
Time
" I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character. "
School
End
Doing
" I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar. "
Really
Turning
Film
" I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it. "
Too
Going
Future
" I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be. "
Going
Now
Watch
" I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else. "
Like
Watch
Pajamas
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