58 Quotes by Laurie Metcalf

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.

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.

I'm hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

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

I’m hideously shy as myself but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

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 don’t like working in front of a camera.

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.

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