Carrie Coon quotes

“Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.”
-- Carrie Coon

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.”
-- Carrie Coon

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“What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.”
-- Carrie Coon

Source : Source: collider.com

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“I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.”
-- Carrie Coon

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“I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.”
-- Carrie Coon

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“I played a lot of moms. You're always too young when you're playing moms. My first kid when I started playing moms was about six months old. And then a month later I was doing another commercial audition and my kid was two, and then about eight months later my kid was 11.”
-- Carrie Coon

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.”
-- Carrie Coon

Source : Source: collider.com

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“I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.”
-- Carrie Coon

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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“No one man is superior to the game.”

“I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.”

“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”

“I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.”

“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.”

“Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.”

“I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.”