Katy Mixon

“You literally just have to celebrate who you are, because that's a beautiful thing.”

“Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.”

“I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally.”

“I helped my mom raise so many little sisters. At 11, I was helping get them ready for school, watching over them, putting them to sleep. It's just naturally with me.”

“A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.”

“Everybody understands, for whatever reason, what it's like to not fit in, or not do it right, or not be perfect.”

“You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.”

“I'm a girl that loves to go to amusement park.”

“In real life, I'm very different from Sarah Dunn. She's from the North. I grew up in the South. I wear big hoop earrings. I love me some makeup, and that's not her at all.”

“Pensacola isn't Florida, really. It's the Panhandle. It's right up there near Alabama and Louisiana. It's, like, a stroll away from New Orleans. I feel like New Orleans is home.”

“I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.”