58 Quotes by Laurie Metcalf

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 like contemporary, bare-boned writing. I don't like having the language that I barely understand get in the way of me interpreting it over to an audience. It's this barrier that I don't want to have to attack.

'Three Tall Women' is kind of fascinating. I had never seen it itself, and I imagine the audience will find it very intriguing to watch the reveal of who these people are and how they interact in the second act.

I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of 'Mary McGowan.'

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

I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be.

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.'