Mary Lynn Rajskub Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I personally have a background of many days on end of confusion, understimulation, overstimulation, and uncomfortableness with the world around me.
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There is always the personal, simple happiness that doesn't happen.
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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.'
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It always surprised me that I was getting acting work.
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I've been a weirdo since I was a kid.
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I have to paint at least two times a week, and there's not enough time in the day to do everything.
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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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.
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I like America. I think it's pretty cool.
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I need to see where I am physically and practicing with NHL players is the best way to find that out.
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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.
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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.
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