Quotes by Carrie Preston

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.

The heroines in Thats What She Said are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.

Thats What She Said is not Hollywoods standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up girl women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

I got my first big paycheck for My Best Friends Wedding. This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesnt happen like that anymore, but this was in the 90s. It was the golden age!