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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• Laurie Metcalf:

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

• Laurie Metcalf:

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

• Laurie 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

• Laurie Metcalf:

  I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audi

• Laurie Metcalf:

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

• Laurie Metcalf:

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

• Laurie Metcalf:

  You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it dow

• 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. I

• Laurie Metcalf:

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

• Laurie Metcalf:

  One of the hardest things about directing is just to be patient and remind yourself that you've bee