American - Actress | June 16, 1955 -
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.
Laurie Metcalf
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I watch the Oscars in my pajamas like everybody else.
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I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.
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I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there.
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I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre.
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I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.
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I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
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I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary.
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Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.
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When I go to see something I'm in, or my friends are in, it's like a home movie. When I just go to the movies and don't know anyone in it, then it's a real movie.
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I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.
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I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it.
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