Catherine Keener Quotes

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

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.

I`ve worked with a lot of great directors.

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

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.

Well, the day I got nominated, I had jury duty, a D.U.I. case. The morning the nominations were announced, I reported to jury duty as scheduled. That was good; it gave me perspective. If you start feeling too important, it`s always good to go sit in a jury for a D.U.I. charge.

I just never fantasized about Mr. Rogers, but I like his whole vibe.

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.

Luck favors the prepared.

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.

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.

It`s important for me to connect with the script and to know after meeting the director if it`s a person I`m going to feel unguarded around.

I don`t think I`m very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality.

I think people are always looking for a good comedy.

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

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.

My work environment has always been very safe and very warm, so I have the freedom to speak directly to my friend,s and vice-versa.

I know many great actors who have small heads.

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

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

The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don`t have a lot of money.

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.

(On her harshest rejection): "One director said I just wasn`t sexy. It was hard, really hard. I left town for two months with my tail between my legs. But you have to kind of go, okay, maybe I`m not their idea of (sexy), but hell, I can have sex!"

Well, for one thing, I like being a supporting actress. I like to come and go in the film. The interesting characters are very few if you want to be the lead, and they depend on you being beautiful. Since I`m not interested in those parts, the pressure`s off, in a way. I`m not cast for my physicality. I find that playing so many characters in so many films is a way to be in the moment.

I... had guys on the set who didn`t like me... they weren`t interested in the cold character.