Before I ever start a job that I'm really excited about, I usually have some sleepless nights or weeks or months. But that anticipation for a person like me... I don't do so well with a lot of time off. Lily Rabe More Quotes by Lily Rabe More Quotes From Lily Rabe The only thing that matters is the theater! Lily Rabe managementmattertime 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 realplayrunning No, I'm not feminist. I'm not, not a feminist. Lily Rabe feminist Definitely haven't been doing writing. I'm so intimated by it now because I sort of put it to bed after I graduated, and I got so focused on acting. But it is something that I hope get brave enough - even if I just go back it for myself - it is something that is very close to my heart and I do hope that it's not something that is gone forever from my life. I guess that's just a choice; no one's going to that do for me, so I need to be the one to do it. Lily Rabe braveheartwriting The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. Lily Rabe focusbrothersoccer Mark Conseulos is so amazing. Lily Rabe mark 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 horror-storiesinterviewsjobs 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. Lily Rabe strangecollegewriting I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited. Lily Rabe excitedscarescene 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 parentmotherbest-friend 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 panicwantthinking I was shooting Beyond Redemption, I started shooting American Horror Story, so I was going back and forth between Northern California and LA. That was not bad at all - that flight is like getting on the subway, it's nothing. And then during rehearsals. Lily Rabe redemptionflighthorror Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents. Lily Rabe communityparentchildren 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 readingjobsthinking 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 communityparentlong For me, work is so satisfying and it's giving me so much, it's nurturing me so much, that I think it sort of makes up for the sleep depravation. Lily Rabe sleepgivingthinking You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are. Lily Rabe parentwantpeople When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five. Lily Rabe tinyvoiceway The flight back and forth to LA has just started to feel like a commute, I think because all the jobs are jobs that I love doing so much, and it's such a great challenge to be holding on to all these different parts and to have to be in different mediums. Lily Rabe differentchallengesthinking 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 realwritingschool
