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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Carrie Coon

My family has never understood why I play crazy, angry, depressed people because that is not the way they think of me.…

— Carrie Coon

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

— Carrie Coon

I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help…

— Carrie Coon

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

— Carrie Coon

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but…

— Carrie Coon

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

— Carrie Coon

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on…

— Carrie Coon

Everyone thinks I'm on 'Mindhunter!'

— Carrie Coon

I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother…

— Carrie Coon

I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me,…

— Carrie Coon

We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this…

— Carrie Coon

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

— Carrie Coon