Quotes from Rosemarie DeWitt

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

There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

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.

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

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'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 think you're always drawn to what you love, and I'm always really drawn to things that feel really real and really true to me. I love things that make me think of things in a way I hadn't, and I love looking at people in the world in a way that I hadn't. And sometimes big, huge stories do that for me, but I think I am drawn to smaller ones.

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 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.

I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood.

We have our whole lives to try and get a glimpse of what that could be, in our own life. It's so exciting.

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 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.

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

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 are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

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

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.

With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

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.

You can't hate James Brown! Who hates James Brown?

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.

I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it.

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