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. – Catherine Keener
Insecurity is just something that’s there all the time. I’ve never been crippled by it. – Catherine Keener
I don’t think I’m very ambitious at all. But I seem to play people who have that quality. – Catherine Keener
The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don’t have a lot of money. – Catherine Keener
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. – Catherine Keener
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. – Catherine Keener
I… had guys on the set who didn’t like me… they weren’t interested in the cold character. – Catherine Keener
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. – Catherine Keener
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. – Catherine Keener
