Laurie Metcalf

I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audition for one play in high school - 'Auntie Mame.' I got a small part as the fiancee who comes on in the end. I got laughs. I wasn't shy at all doing the part. I can do anything on stage and write it off as a character.

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I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

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I want to be thinking as quickly as I need to as soon as I hit the stage. I want to have a vocal warm-up.

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Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.

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I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

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