D J Metcalf Quotes & Sayings

I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish. — Laurie Metcalf

I don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of watching me celebrate, which would make it look like a big deal that I beat him. — Brent Metcalf

I don't like working in front of a camera. — Laurie Metcalf

My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get. — Laurie Metcalf

Every part I get, I just think I'm so lucky. They're so hard to get, you know. — Laurie Metcalf

The world snapped open.
The world snapped shut. — Dawn Metcalf

I am feeling more. I feel everything more. I cannot express it. I can hardly keep track of it all. It is you! All you! Everything! — Dawn Metcalf

I know he [Richard] went hunting. Maybe well get lucky, and he'll shoot himself in the head. Or maybe a buddy will pull a Dick Cheney. — Karen Metcalf

I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular 'ism', but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. — John Metcalf

I'm happy whenever I'm in a rehearsal room. I've always gotten all my energy and creativity in there. — Laurie Metcalf

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before. — Laurie Metcalf

You never know how long you have-there might not BE a later-so don't let things go unsaid or unforgiven. — Dawn Metcalf

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing. — Laurie Metcalf

I was worked like a jackass for the worst part of my childhood, and offered up to climate and predator and vice, and introduced to solitude, and braced against hope, and dangled before the Lord our God, and schooled in the subtle truths and blatant lies of a half life in the American countryside, all because my parents did not trust that I would mature to their specifications in town. — Ben Metcalf

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. — John Metcalf

Never let me lose you, Ink. Never let me screw this up. And never think for one moment that I don't love you, need you or want you with me. — Dawn Metcalf

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. — Stephen Metcalf

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. — Shelby Metcalf

I've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre. — Laurie Metcalf

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. — Laurie Metcalf

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it. — Laurie Metcalf

I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool. — Dawn Metcalf

Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections. — Stephen Metcalf

I love you, Ink, and I want you-only you. Being strong doesn't mean I don't want you too. You are the only person who knows every part of my life, every part of me in it, the good and the bad and the horrible, and you still love me. You are always with me, even when you're not there. And when you're not there, I can feel it, like an empty space where you ought to be, and I can hardly wait until you're back to fill it again. Neither world feels like it fits, but we belong. — Dawn Metcalf

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director. — Laurie Metcalf

Really, I'll go anywhere at any time to continue working in theater - it's a passion that I'm thankful I still have. It keeps me creative and on my toes and meeting great people. I can't imagine a better way of working than on a play. — Laurie Metcalf

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. — Laurie Metcalf

I was too practical to major in theater. Acting - what was I going to do with acting? There was no future in it. — Laurie Metcalf

I work just as hard and have just as much fun whether in a 50-seat house or in a 1000-seat house. It's a luxury to be in a tiny space every once in a while and a rush to be on a giant stage every once in a while. — Laurie Metcalf

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing. — Laurie Metcalf

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield. — Stephen Metcalf

I was born with the Sight, Ink," she said, voice trembling. "So tell me, why were you the first person I'd ever seen from the Twixt?"
They stared at each other. His answer slipped through his lips.
"Because I saw you," he confessed. "And I couldn't look away. — Dawn Metcalf