Rosemarie DeWitt

“In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.”

“I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go.”

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

“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.”

“There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can't ignore them, because it's not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they're lame.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.”

“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 realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.”

“It's funny: I feel like so many people say, 'Monogamy, it's not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,' but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they're married to.”

“I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.”

“I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.'”

“A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and it's about making money. For me, the project that felt like all of it was 'Rachel Getting Married' because I had such a good time on that movie. Jonathan Demme, to me, is one of the most actor-friendly directors.”

“I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times.”

“My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!'”

“I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play.”