Mickey Sumner Quotes

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted.

In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.

I feel like a lot of people are very career-driven and there's pressure to be successful. You put off relationships. You put off those intimate relationships because you're just work-driven. It's a very sweet term, undateable.

I have a really supportive family, which is really wonderful, but I'm not forcing everyone to watch my work every week.

I'm English, and my favorite movie is 'Manhattan.'

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.