Lily Rabe Quotes

The only thing that matters is the theater!

Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.

Mark Conseulos is so amazing.

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited.

I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.

I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I'd gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.

I will say that I've been lucky enough never to have to do a job I didn't want to do, or a play I wasn't in love with.

Truthfully, I don't know how those special effects people do it.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation.

It's very hard when you're doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.

To be working in the theater steadily and to be recognized and appreciated by the community means the world.

The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.

I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back and revisit that part of my life. It did kind of make me hungry for it again.

All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist.