You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.
I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.
One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've been in Week 1 of a rehearsal process yourself, and you know what it feels like.
When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.
I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
I don't like working in front of a camera.
My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.
No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover.
I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.
I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.
I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.'
I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.
A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.
I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.
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 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 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.'
