Top 31 Laurie Metcalf Quotes
#1. I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
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#2. I'm not one of those artists who doubts that they made dope-ass records. From the first record to now, each record has gotten better. I started dope, so I've just gotten doper and doper and dopest and super dope.
Killer Mike
#3. I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
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#4. My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.
Paris Hilton
#5. Pittsburgh. I'd been there. One of the most underrated cities in North America. People who'd never been there thought of it as a graveyard of abandoned steel mills, but it was a beautiful city, and it would be good to have it back.
Steven Brust
#6. This piece of groping wisdom impresses me still. A sensible prayer people could offer up from time to time, it seems to me, might go something like this: "Dear Lord - never put me in the charge of a frightened human being." Kenneth
Kurt Vonnegut
#7. My ancestors are Rajputs from Jaipur, a lineage of the royal family.
Kangana Ranaut
#8. I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
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#9. 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.
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#10. I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
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#11. My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
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#12. For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.
George Orwell
#13. I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
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#14. 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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#15. I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
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#16. 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.
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#17. Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
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#18. You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
Francesca Annis
#19. 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.
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#20. 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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#21. I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.
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#23. Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
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#24. When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
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#25. Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.
Marcus Aurelius
#26. My conscience was going to give me trouble on this one.
That's the naggy little person who lives in your brain and makes you feel guilty about stuff.
Man, I hate that guy sometimes.
Katherine Applegate
#27. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#28. What's meant for you will reach you in time, and if you embrace it with your arms wide open it might just stay with you forever and bless you with more happiness than you could ever envision.
Jayde Scott
#29. In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#30. I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while.
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