Top 41 Metcalf Quotes
#1. Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
Laurie Metcalf
#2. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#3. Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know.
Laurie Metcalf
#4. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#5. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#6. I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.
Laurie Metcalf
#7. I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool.
Dawn Metcalf
#9. Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections.
Stephen Metcalf
#10. You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe how lucky I am to be with you and I hope you know that.
Dawn Metcalf
#11. I was born with the Sight, Ink," she said, voice trembling. "So tell me, why were you the first person I'd ever seen from the Twixt?"
They stared at each other. His answer slipped through his lips.
"Because I saw you," he confessed. "And I couldn't look away.
Dawn Metcalf
#12. Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.
Stephen Metcalf
#13. Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.
Stephen Metcalf
#14. The world snapped open.
The world snapped shut.
Dawn Metcalf
#15. When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
Laurie Metcalf
#16. I know he [Richard] went hunting. Maybe well get lucky, and he'll shoot himself in the head. Or maybe a buddy will pull a Dick Cheney.
Karen Metcalf
#17. You never know how long you have-there might not BE a later-so don't let things go unsaid or unforgiven.
Dawn Metcalf
#18. If you're a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy.
Jim Metcalf
#19. 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
#20. Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don't love you, need you or want you with me.
Dawn Metcalf
#21. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#22. I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him.
Brent Metcalf
#23. The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.
Stephen Metcalf
#24. I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
Laurie Metcalf
#25. Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes.
Dawn Metcalf
#26. We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the real demand is there for it. We implement the changes before the customers even realizes a need for it.
Eric Metcalf
#27. Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too.
Dawn Metcalf
#28. Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
Shelby Metcalf
#29. I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything!
Dawn Metcalf
#30. I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
John Metcalf
#31. I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
Laurie Metcalf
#32. I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
Laurie Metcalf
#33. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#34. I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
Laurie Metcalf
#35. Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.
John Metcalf
#36. My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
Laurie Metcalf
#37. Through the light splaying off the roof, Angela's falling blonde hair looked cream-colored, intricately stitched together like a veil.
Greg Metcalf
#38. I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
Laurie Metcalf
#39. I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.
Stephen Metcalf
#40. 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.
Laurie Metcalf
#41. I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
Laurie Metcalf
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