Crazy Quote by 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 me as a totally messy, klutzy goofball - kind of weird and hyper.”

Carrie Coon

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

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

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