27 Quotes by Liz Tuccillo

I don't think I have advice for female directors as opposed to male directors. I think all first-time directors should try and be as prepared as they possibly can, because it's hard!

You date somebody, and you have this obviously intense experience where you share a life together in whatever way that is for how many years.

Women still come up to me and say, 'If it wasn't for you, I would never have met my husband.'

The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.

I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.

I went to NYU to study liberal arts.

My first job in acting was in a Scott Baio movie called 'I Love N.Y.' My role was Italian Girl. I sent my 8x10 to a casting agent in the booklet, 'The Ross Report,' which is where all the agents were listed before that little thing called the Internet. I read for this tiny part. I couldn't have been more excited to get it.

I was about 29 or 30, and I started writing monologues for myself. I felt I got more immediate encouragement from that than I ever had in acting.

Writers are always sort of threatening to direct, and sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.