42 Quotes by Lily Rabe

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

The only thing that matters is the theater!