Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

As actors, we have to say yes to everything for a really long time. You say 'Yes' to anything you can get.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

My parents are just really down-to-earth, earnest, hardworking people that don't want for anything. I think that really served me because when you put more value on experience than things, then you're going to go out and have experiences.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

My family has never understood why I play crazy, angry, depressed people because that is not the way they think of me. They see me as a totally messy, klutzy goofball - kind of weird and hyper.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me, which is a very egotistical approach to your faith. I just wanted somebody to pay attention to me.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what they don't understand is that most female parts are written basically as hysterical women.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I grew up with babies, so babies have never been particularly intimidating to me.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I think Noah Hawley's writing is hilarious, and I love a good dark joke.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I grew up in a family with five kids.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I didn't expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite content doing Shakespeare out in Wisconsin.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

The 'Fargo' characters, they're the characters of my people. They're stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I don't want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Carrie Coon
Carrie Coon

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.