Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people. ”

I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it. ”

Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart. ”

I think Noah Hawley's writing is hilarious, and I love a good dark joke. ”

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think. ”

My parents are just really down-to-earth, earnest, hardworking people that don't want for anything. I think that really served me because when you put more value on experience than things, then you're going to go out and have experiences. ”

I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show! ”

There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know what happens to your character or if you want to experience it episode by episode. In the theatre, we always know the ending; we always know where the character is going. ”

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way. ”

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker. ”