It always surprised me that I was getting acting work. Mary Lynn Rajskub More Quotes by Mary Lynn Rajskub More Quotes From Mary Lynn Rajskub There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen. Mary Lynn Rajskub simple-happiness simple happens I don't think my acting was ever bad; I always knew that I could do it. But when you go to audition for a drama, they're very serious in the room, and I was used to being kind of goofy and having small talk. Mary Lynn Rajskub acting drama thinking The same sports sayings seem to be used over and over again. If you have your own favorite sport saying and would like to share it, or possibly a story you would like to add please continue to our contributor page. Mary Lynn Rajskub stories add sports I don't mean to give performance art a bad name or anything; I think there are people that are legit. I think I just got frustrated painting - I love painting; I actually tried to be an artist, but it's sensitive, and then you have an object. And what do you do with that object? And then repeat and repeat, blah blah blah. Mary Lynn Rajskub mean art thinking To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy. Mary Lynn Rajskub off-the-beaten-path people ideas The more I get to do this character, the more I realize that she's not just annoying. It's that her strength is not interacting with people socially. She just doesn't have time because she has so much going on in her brain. Mary Lynn Rajskub brain character people See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!" Mary Lynn Rajskub typing good-person over-you When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.' Mary Lynn Rajskub tables air jobs I've been a weirdo since I was a kid. Mary Lynn Rajskub weirdo kids I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted. Mary Lynn Rajskub bitter work-out thinking I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. Mary Lynn Rajskub fun art school I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me. Mary Lynn Rajskub confusion ends world I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out. Mary Lynn Rajskub nhl player needs I like America. I think it's pretty cool. Mary Lynn Rajskub america thinking I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything. Mary Lynn Rajskub enough-time week two I like America. I think it's pretty cool. I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort, and so I could remain in a fantasy world. Mary Lynn Rajskub acting america thinking Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself. Mary Lynn Rajskub really just myself like I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there. Mary Lynn Rajskub face never back said I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.' Mary Lynn Rajskub saying like far-away character I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.' Mary Lynn Rajskub beginning go you mom
