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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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" You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Laurie Metcalf

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

" 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. "

" One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like. "

Laurie Metcalf

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" That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues. "

Laurie Metcalf

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

Laurie Metcalf

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material. "

" I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it. "

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

" A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup. "

" I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I'm so thrilled to be here on the set of 'Supergirl!' "

" 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

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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. "