Top 30 Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

I’m always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn’t have somewhere to go.

I’m astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their life to it, maybe go over to Syria, maybe lose their life. Then, the next day, it’s a new story.

I do feel there is a very rabid young base for ‘Black Mirror’ that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media.

I’ve had friends who did pilots, and I’d say, ‘What happened to that?’ and they’d say, ‘It didn’t go,’ and it literally goes into a void of nothingness because no one gets to see it. All that money and talent and time put into it.

In parenthood, there’s so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there’s so much fear around technology.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I remember one time my cousin telling me – she’s got four kids – she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house.

It’s funny: I feel like so many people say, ‘Monogamy, it’s not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,’ but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they’re married to.

I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue.

I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn.

I’m not on any social media; I don’t even know what things are. I’m so behind the times.

I’m always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I’m amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card.

I haven’t been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.

I think what’s so brilliant about ‘Black Mirror’ is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.

I don’t want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I’m really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

There’s nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child.

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.

Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They’re kind of benign.

You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they’re so nice. They might yell at you, but it’s nice.

There’s a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor – I’m not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can’t ignore them, because it’s not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they’re lame.

Usually when you do a pilot, there’s a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.

I have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is – besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day – you plan what time you’re going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning.

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn’t work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he’s up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

I grew up in the suburbs.

The more fears that we’re exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

I realized, because I’ve been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

There’s something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor.

In real life, I don’t fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.