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I was actually really sick of being a broke actress with a toddler, so I wrote a script.
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I moved to L.A. because I didn't want to be in New York anymore. And I knew if I wanted to act, it would have to be in one of those places.
Frankie Shaw
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I discovered that my biggest passion was for directing, so in making opportunity for myself, I found what I like doing the best.
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I want to disappear in a role.
Frankie Shaw -
I am fully a feminist in this modern definition of the term. It's innate in my work because that's just who I am.
Frankie Shaw -
When my son was small, he just came with me everywhere, whether it was going to yoga class or auditions or sleeping over at friends' houses. We came as a pair.
Frankie Shaw -
We had no money. My family was in Southie; I was in affluent Brookline. I don't know if it's my personality or the circumstance, but it all kind of led to this feeling of being an observer on the outside.
Frankie Shaw -
When I first had Isaac, I only owned a mattress. Now I have a show?
Frankie Shaw
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There was a feeling I had when I got pregnant and decided to keep the baby, and I knew I wasn't going to be with the baby daddy, and I was really toying with what my identity would be.
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Most of the stories I write are women's stories - but the darker, unseen stories.
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Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
Frankie Shaw -
I moved out to L.A. and had my son and was walking around Gelson's, and I was like, 'Am I just one giant, lactating boob? Is that what I've become?'
Frankie Shaw -
There's this idea that motherhood is as American as apple pie, but yet we don't support it with any government assistance.
Frankie Shaw