Missi Pyle Quotes

#1. It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

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#2. I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

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#3. My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

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#4. There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

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#5. I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.

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#6. I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

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#7. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.

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#8. My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

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#9. I feel more comfortable when I'm somebody else, I think. When I'm taking a picture as myself, the whole idea of taking a headshot, to me, feels very false.

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#10. I really love being a character actor.

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#11. I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old.

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#12. I've done so many television pilots. I've done eleven I think and I've never had one get picked up. There was never one that I was a guest star on. It's just fascinating, but I don't think it would be fun to be recognized all the time.

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#13. I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

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#14. I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.

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#15. I used to audition like crazy - I would go on a hundred before I got anything. It took me a long time to get any jobs at all. It was hard until I booked 'Galaxy Quest,' and then it started to get easier.

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#16. I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.

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#17. People will go into an audition and a casting situation, and they'll see someone across the room that's perhaps slightly famous, or famous, and they think, 'Oh God, I'm not gonna get the part.'

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