Catherine Keener Quotes on People (12 Quotes)


    If you look at the parts... they are really great parts, and the writing is always great, and the people that I've been able to work with are amazing.

    These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.


    The people who make those movies tend to be studios, because they need a lot of money to do it, and those people don't hire me.

    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.


    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.

    When you make-believe, you're somebody else. As an adult, I think people have a fascination with acting, as well. A lot of people I know would love to act, and it's all in a very kind of innocent way. It's so much fun to do different things. To experience new things all the time.

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

    In these situations that I've been involved in, people are going toward a common goal, which is to do good work. The crew will go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and give you an encouraging pat on the back. Everybody just works toward that objective, and it's really helpful in a performance. It's dire for me.

    If you work in casting, it's sort of not cool to want to act. A lot of people think that casting directors are frustrated actors, but it wasn't true with any of the casting people I knew.

    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.

    It occurred to me that it would be interesting to be a man for a short amount of time, just to see if there actually is a difference in the way that we think and feel, like people are always talking about. I don't really know that there's a difference, because I've only been a woman.


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