Carrie Coon Quotes

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We don’t have control over many things. We’re always grasping for it, but in reality, we don’t have a lot of control.

Carrie Coon

I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me, which is a very egotistical approach to your faith. I just wanted somebody to pay attention to me.

Carrie Coon

My family has never understood why I play crazy, angry, depressed people because that is not the way they think of me. They see me as a totally messy, klutzy goofball – kind of weird and hyper.

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I think there is no better training than being onstage because here‘s the thing: the theater requires you to act with your whole body. I think acting with your whole body gives you a root, and you can build from there.

Carrie Coon

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

Carrie Coon

I’m from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she‘s the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.

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I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.

Carrie Coon

I don’t believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.

Carrie Coon

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

Carrie Coon

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

Carrie Coon

We haven‘t evolved a hero story that’s female. We’re always trying to fit women‘s stories into this male structure, which is this rising action, this powerful conflict, and this falling action. And I think a female hero story is not that. It’s something else.

Carrie Coon

I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.

Carrie Coon

Being a literature major, you know, I’m very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.

Carrie Coon

The ‘Fargo‘ characters, they’re the characters of my people. They’re stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.

Carrie Coon

Inevitably, when a scene isn’t working for me, it’s because I’m being self-conscious, and I’m not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

Carrie Coon

I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.

Carrie Coon

I’m a middle child, and I’m pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

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I didn’t expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite content doing Shakespeare out in Wisconsin.

Carrie Coon

I’ve been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can’t when you’re in the middle of it.

Carrie Coon

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

Carrie Coon

It’s much harder to act poorly written material. It’s much harder to memorize poorly written material.

Carrie Coon

My parents are just really down-to-earth, earnest, hardworking people that don’t want for anything. I think that really served me because when you put more value on experience than things, then you’re going to go out and have experiences.

Carrie Coon

I didn’t grow up knowing actors’ names, and my parents weren’t theater people.

Carrie Coon

I don’t want to be famous. I want to tell stories.

Carrie Coon

Part of being an actor is the rhythm of the life of being an actor, and that involves coming together with a group of people, making something together that is intense and requires a lot of intimacy, and then walking away from it with the possibility that you will never see any of those people again.

Carrie Coon

Carrie Coon Quotes

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