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" 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. "
Laurie Metcalf
I Am
Me
Today
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" 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. "
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" That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues. "
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" Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't like working in front of a camera. "
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" 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.' "
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" I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar. "
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" I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it. "
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" 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. "
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" A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup. "
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" I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. "
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You
" When I get a beautifully written piece of material, I immediately start imagining how I would interpret it. I love just daydreaming about it for months, breaking it down, seeing where I can spin something. How I can turn this into the most fun ride for the audience that I can make it? That's my job. "
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" 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. "
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Never
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" 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. "
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School
Myself
" 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%. "
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Giving
Driving
You
" 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.' "
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" I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary. "
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" 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. "
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" 'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act. "
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Here
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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