42 Quotes by Lily Rabe

I've been the victim a lot, so I've often played the person who's getting raped or murdered or abused. And so, to actually be raping and murdering and abusing people is a whole different kind of challenge, and one that was very difficult, at times.

I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I’d gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

I will say that I’ve been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn’t want to do, or a play I wasn’t in love with.

It’s very hard when you’re doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

No, I’m not feminist. I’m not, not a feminist.

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.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there’s no more wasting time.

Truthfully, I don’t know how those special effects people do it.