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" 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. "

Laurie Metcalf

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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You

Know

" 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 like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it. "

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" 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. "

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I Am

Kind

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before. "

Laurie Metcalf

New

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

Laurie Metcalf

Front

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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

Laurie Metcalf

Thinking

Crazy

" No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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