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

Lehman?" Joy said. The word sounded familiar. "What does that mean?"
Inq shrugged as she considered the overhead lights. "A human who has been chosen by one of our kind. Confidante, contact, significant ... "
"Slave," Ink said dully.
"What?" Joy snapped.
"Or lover," Inq added. "It loses something in translation. — Dawn 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

Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting. — Stephen 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

You have never let me down. You are always there for me. You are the best part of me, who I want to be, and every time I look at you I can hardly believe how lucky I am to be with you and I hope you know that. — Dawn 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

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

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

The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth. — John Mahoney

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. — Laurie Metcalf

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

We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the real demand is there for it. We implement the changes before the customers even realizes a need for it. — Eric Metcalf

Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too. — Dawn Metcalf

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. — Laurie Metcalf

Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes. — Dawn Metcalf

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. — Laurie Metcalf

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

If you're a good marketing person, you have to be a little crazy. — Jim Metcalf

The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself. — Stephen Metcalf

I was an office secretary for a long time. A good secretary. — Laurie Metcalf

We should conduct ourselves so that wisdom will grow. Our organization's structures should be designed to facilitate learning at all levels, in all areas, even if at first we don't see the relevance. Professional development opportunities including seminars, university programs, special project teams, and mentoring programs are just a few examples of structured learning. — Franz 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

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

Through the light splaying off the roof, Angela's falling blonde hair looked cream-colored, intricately stitched together like a veil. — Greg 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

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 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

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

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

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

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

I am only an idea, a requirement breathed to life-an instrument. A tool. — Dawn 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 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've loved every minute of every hour I've spent doing theatre. — Laurie Metcalf

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

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