Quotes from Rhea Seehorn

I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable.

I didn't have cable when 'Breaking Bad' started, so I came to it late and kept waiting for a friend to watch it with, and could not find a single person who was not already into Season 3 and didn't refuse to start watching it from the beginning.

I've gotten to a place where I'm better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you're feeling super small and scared about whatever you're seeing, and you want to go read, 'Oh, I hear there's a really good article about me.' I've gotten better about knowing that's not going to end well, usually.

I would love to have read about myself being compared to Lauren Bacall.

I'm often compared to Alan Rickman. I wish.

You can tell when someone on TV who's supposed to be struggling to pay back loans is clearly wearing a Gucci suit or tailored to perfection.

I think I would like directing. I really like coming at the work that way.

I want to let all men and women know: Try going to a party or a dinner where you're completely fine with silences, and you don't fill them just to fill them. It's exhilarating and terrifying.

If I had a whole other life, I'd be a psychiatrist.

The women I grew up with didn't have a different purse to match all their outfits.

Just playing someone who's not concerned with people's comfort levels is so freeing.

Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

I root for people who I think authentically love each other and have each other's backs, and there's no questioning that.

I love how deceptively simple 'love interest' is, you know? Because it encompasses quite a lot, when you think about it.

I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

I personally wear a lot of earth tones - does that make me boring? I don't know. I do like a pop of color, like red shoes or a bright orange jacket.

I've had the great fortune of working with incredible people on many shows.

Peter Gould and Vince Gilligan and the slew of fantastic writers and directors have always geared me towards making a three-dimensional human.

I think most people would struggle to define their whole relationship with just one label - like: my girlfriend, boyfriend, brother, sister, confidantes, whatever - but in those moments, there's true joy in each other.

I don't ever read chat rooms, because if you've got sixteen nice things, number seventeen is always the person that just wants to be contrary.

I think part of real intimacy is being able to leave the room mad, and knowing that the other person will be there when you get back.

To choose to be silent in any scene sometimes has more notes in my script than when you chose to speak.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.