Actor Quotes by Carrie Coon

Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.

— 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…

— Carrie Coon

I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,'…

— Carrie Coon

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never…

— Carrie Coon

I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.

— 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,…

— Carrie Coon

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

— Carrie Coon

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

— Carrie Coon

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

— Carrie Coon

I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and…

— Carrie Coon

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

— 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…

— Carrie Coon

I've never felt terribly attached to acting because I always feel like the world is really big and really interesting, and there are a…

— 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…

— Carrie Coon

My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what…

— Carrie Coon