A biography for Elizabeth Meriwetherhasn’t been written yet.
“The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.”
“I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'”
“Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.”
“I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.”
“I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.”