Elizabeth Reaser Quotes
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I don't wear sweatpants out as much as I would like. I would prefer to be in sweatpants most of the time.
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People who know me would say they get a kick out of the fact that I'm always playing nice people, not that I'm not a nice person, but it's not a defining element.
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It is hard to date anywhere... I think you just get a little older and hopefully a clearer idea of who you - I don't know. It is hard.
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I pretty much adore all my exes. I try to stay friends with them if I can.
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I have dated an actor or two. I've tried not to, but then, I don't want to be racist against actors.
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I'm not trying to take anything away from film acting, because it's also really hard, and I worship the people who are great at it. But to actually have to go out on stage night after night and do it with your audience right there is so wild and scary and exciting and fun and all the things that I remember loving about it.
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I wanted to do plays. But then I got out of school and started getting jobs in movies and TV. And I seemed more suited to that. I like the intimacy of working for the camera, the size of performance it requires. I love getting into tiny moments.
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I was a total bad girl growing up.
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It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.
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In my free time, I love to lay in bed.
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My career's been a steady, interesting, weird, frustrating, fun journey at all different times.
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I was 16. In the middle of the night, I took a taxi to the Detroit train station - or maybe it was the Pontiac train station? - and got on a train to Chicago, then transferred to a train to San Diego where my boyfriend was living at the time.
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I needed to do a play. I needed to learn how to act again, in a focused, all-encompassing way, and a really challenging play is a great way to do that.
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I did a film called 'Puccini for Beginners,' which was a romantic comedy, and I always wanted to do more, but I kept doing drama.
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It's funny to be playing a mom. I mean, I'm not a mom in real life. I don't even have a dog.
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I love 'True Blood!'
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Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
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I was really bad until I was 18.
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I think, psychics, there are some people that really are psychic, and it doesn't make sense, but why should it make sense?
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You really have to listen and be vulnerable and open to the other actors and the environment.
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I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.
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I love kids. My sister has four boys, and I'm obsessed with them.
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I think women who don't understand boundaries are fascinating.
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I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.