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 …

- Laurie Metcalf

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

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

- Laurie Metcalf

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

- Laurie Metcalf

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

- Laurie Metcalf

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

- Laurie Metcalf

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

- Laurie Metcalf