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Lily Rabe Quotes

Lily Rabe Quotes.

As someone who’s been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
Lily Rabe
I know it’s such a boring interview sometimes with us at ‘American Horror Story’, but I just can’t say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that’s for sure. It’s such a great job.
Lily Rabe
I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited.
Lily Rabe
It’s sort of scary to work with your parents when you’re in the same business. But there was something so very safe about that. Acting with her was just like working with a wonderful actress who just happens to be my best friend and also my mother.
Lily Rabe
So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That’s usually a good sign to me.
Lily Rabe
I’ve been the victim a lot, so I’ve often played the person who’s getting raped or murdered or abused. And so, to actually be raping and murdering and abusing people is a whole different kind of challenge, and one that was very difficult, at times.
Lily Rabe
I am my parents’ daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.
Lily Rabe
It’s very hard when you’re doing a new play that you believe in, and you want to tell the story in the best way possible.
Lily Rabe
I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.
Lily Rabe
I re-read a lot of my college writing while we were in rehearsals, and it was so strange. It was wonderful to go back and revisit that part of my life. It did kind of make me hungry for it again.
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The only thing that matters is the theater!
Lily Rabe
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
Lily Rabe
I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don’t get off until it’s over – and it’s over very quickly, so don’t miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don’t miss a minute, because there aren’t very many minutes of it.
Lily Rabe
I did have wonderful things to draw from, from my own experience and also just from friends and people I’d gone to school with who were very much immersed in this world right now.
Lily Rabe
All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.
Lily Rabe
Listen, a cable series is a beautiful thing because there’s such amazing writing happening on television, and it’s a schedule that allows you to do a play or two. There’s a reason everybody wants that job!
Lily Rabe
No, I’m not feminist. I’m not, not a feminist.
Lily Rabe
Mark Conseulos is so amazing.
Lily Rabe
When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn’t quite match the way I looked at five.
Lily Rabe
The truth is that’s always when it’s the most fun, when you’re able to just be wherever you are, be whatever scene it is you’re doing, whatever the incredible actors you’re with. Being busy is something that I just love and thrive on.
Lily Rabe
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents.
Lily Rabe
Truthfully, I don’t know how those special effects people do it.
Lily Rabe
I can’t actually think of a job where I was relaxed the whole time. I don’t think I would want to do that job. When I break into a cold sweat when I’m reading, I think, ‘Oh good. That’s what’s supposed to be happening.’
Lily Rabe
For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there’s no more wasting time.
Lily Rabe
One of my mother’s friends said to me, ‘Your ex-boyfriends didn’t stand a chance with you and your mother.’ And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.
Lily Rabe