Words matter. These are the best Kerry Bishe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Keeping secrets is hard.
For a long time, I really blithely walked around in the world imagining that gender didn’t matter any more and behaving like I was on equal footing with other people. And I think, for a long time, it was easy to live in the world that way.
There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.
I watch a lot of classic movies – my TV guilty pleasures are ‘The Wonder Years’ or the original ‘MASH’ show.
I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.
I went to a Cal Tech party after the ‘Facebook’ movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code.
To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it’s never done; it’s never perfect, and so it’s the process. It’s like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.
Playing the same role over and over makes me feel claustrophobic sometimes and smaller than I am.
The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it’s in the edit. It’s not an actor’s job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.
If you’re on a TV show, you never know what’s going to happen week to week with your character.
I’d love to play St. Joan or Hamlet, and hopefully I will.
I think it’s really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible – and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it’s good to see people in the media representing all of those things.
I love smart and curious people. I value intelligence in my friends and relationships.
One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is… it’s an experiment.
I’m obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.
I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.
You do a straight play for three months, four months, maybe. It’s so brief. And then you’re on to the next thing. I loved that. I love that rhythm and that pace.
I have a whole life in New York and a life in L.A. and to live one-third of the year in a place that isn’t one of those is kind of a bummer.
I’m kind of a Luddite myself. I’ve got a bunch of typewriters at home. I’m a big fan of old technology.
It’s more important to represent women as complete, whole, complicated humans as opposed to saintly, perfect women. The point isn’t that they have to be good people. It’s that they have to be people.
