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" I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there. "
Laurie Metcalf
Happy
Room
Always
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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 was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary. "
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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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" 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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" I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. "
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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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Want
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" 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 watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be. "
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" A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup. "
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Past
Dream
" 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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Know
Like
" 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. "
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Need
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" My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. "
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Far Away
Growing
" '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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" I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else. "
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Like
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Pajamas
" I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it. "
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Talk
Than
Speak
" I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material. "
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New
Work
Call
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Feet
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Working
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Energy
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Really
Turning
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