Elizabeth Reaser Quotes

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

The characters I've played have been mostly violent, and I'm so far from being violent or aggressive. I spend a lot of time watching 'Fireman Sam' with my three-year-old son Louis.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

It's been a lot of fun getting to work with Tracy Middendorf, who plays my mom. As an actor, it's always fun to have different parents and to create different familial dynamics than you have in your real life.

It's great playing a mature character. It adds something.

I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock.

I'd played dumbasses a lot. On Mad About You, I played a very dumb waitress and they saw me.

Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

I'm a lot girlier than the roles that I play. I joke with Tricia Helfer all the time that she's my muscle.

The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother.

We did a thing that we would call we call 'hirstories.' H - I - R - S - T - O - R - Y. I would enact a young Mort. And that always felt - it was so funny - it felt more difficult than playing Maura.

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

I am happy to be part of 'Sajjan Re Phir Jhooth Mat Bolo.' This character is something that I have not done before.

Doing funny roles is something I enjoy as I am like that in my personal life.

I've always thought like I'm really a 3-feet-high comic trapped in a leading man's body... but then I played Nicholas Nickleby, and suddenly I was heroic.

When you play a daily soap character that character lives with you for a really long time.

I prefer comedy, as I have to act while playing a gangster. I have to put in a lot of effort to turn into a gangster, as I am not like that in real life. In comedy, one doesn't have to take up such stress.

Every time you play a different role with different actors in different locations, you're developing a greater level of comfort in the act of doing this, which is why you're getting better all the time.

Actually, for me, it's really funny because I play characters with mommy issues more than anything, and I have a great relationship with my mom!

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

I was always goofing around. I suppose having a father who was an actor made you think that it was a real possibility as a career.