Catherine Keener Quotes

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

I'm unqualified for anything else. I'm barely qualified for this.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

I don't think I'm very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

I'm not a public figure at all. I don't really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.

The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.

Sometimes it just doesn't translate to people. You just move on, and you feel bad because people worked so hard on it and everyone loved it ... Everybody was treated so well and was going for something and trying to do the best work possible.

The more people involved in making a movie, the worse it is, generally.

Luck favors the prepared

When I was in college, at Wheaton-I inadvertently got cast in a play, and I had a really great time doing it. I didnt know I had any knack for it, but I really enjoyed myself. It was a complete surprise.

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part ... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

The movies I'm in not a lot of people see, but it's alright.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.