Quotes from Rachel Brosnahan

Home is where your rump rests.

Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

I really love period pieces.

I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.

Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.

I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.

I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

I can't walk in heels at all.

I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'

I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.