Allison Tolman Quotes
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I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle. And I have since now found a New York where if I lived there now, I know where I would want to live.
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Whenever I've done a sketch in which I'm asked to play a mom, my brain goes to Minnesota. It makes the character seem matronly, warm, the kind of person that takes care of you and brings you Campbell's soup when you're sick. It's a great shortcut.
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I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not appeal to me. It was too much hustle and bustle.
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The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.
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I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.
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I don't think I have ever worn more outfits over the course of four days than I did Emmy weekend. You barely sleep. You don't eat.
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I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.
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At Clements, I was an officer in Thespian Troupe No. 3689.
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Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.
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What is right is not always popular.
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I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.
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When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.
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'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.
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Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.
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I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.
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I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
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I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.
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I grill, like, every day.
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I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.
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Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.
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I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.
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I don't have any phobias per se, but both tight and vast spaces tend to make me nervous after a prolonged time.
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I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.
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As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.