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" I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that. "

Elizabeth Reaser

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" In my free time, I love to lay in bed. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I love 'True Blood!' "

Elizabeth Reaser

" It is hard to date anywhere... I think you just get a little older and hopefully a clearer idea of who you - I don't know. It is hard. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I'm friends with Elizabeth Banks - she's a great actress but not actressy at all. She's very cool. I adore her. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" It's surprisingly hard to play a vampire and feel believable. I mean, you want to be able to at least believe yourself. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I really wanted to do plays since I was a little girl. I wanted to go to Juilliard and to learn, but then I really fell in love with doing film and television along the way. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I love, love, love to rehearse, but when you're rehearsing and then you go do it at night, it's a very weird thing, because you're incorporating all these new things. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I don't wear sweatpants out as much as I would like. I would prefer to be in sweatpants most of the time. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I don't connect to a certain girliness or talking about girly things - I feel unauthentic and uncomfortable in that world - maybe I'm just more butch than I realize! I have, however, been fortunate to have a number of great girlfriends. You don't meet as many girls as you do guys in my line of work, so I do cherish my friendships. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I have dated an actor or two. I've tried not to, but then, I don't want to be racist against actors. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I pretty much adore all my exes. I try to stay friends with them if I can. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" Eventually, I realized that I would not have a life until I buckled down. Once I did, I auditioned for Juilliard - and that changed everything. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense? "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I was really bad until I was 18. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" To me, there's so much we don't understand about our world, and I think it's really fascinating to see these people come up with the stuff that they come up with. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I was a total bad girl growing up. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I get cast a lot of times in movies with nice people for some reason - because I have a nice face or something. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with such an intimate but very public way of relating to the world, but I feel like I've studied it enough. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest. "

Elizabeth Reaser

" I love kids. My sister has four boys, and I'm obsessed with them. "

Elizabeth Reaser