Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Merritt Wever

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Merritt Wever.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Merritt Wever

Merritt Carmen Wever is an American actress. She is known for starring as a perennially upbeat young nurse in Nurse Jackie (2009–2015), an intrepid widow in the Netflix period miniseries Godless (2017), and a detective investigating a serial rapist in the Netflix crime mini-series Unbelievable (2019). For Nurse Jackie, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013, for Godless, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie in 2018 and for the mini-series Unbelievable, she was nominated the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film in 2020.

You want to work on something that people watch and that people like.
I grew up in New York, and I grew up with a mother who was an arts lover herself, and I went to these New York City public schools with these great arts education programs, so it was something that I was lucky enough to be able to be exposed to very early.
Casting directors are like these fairy godmother witches. — © Merritt Wever
Casting directors are like these fairy godmother witches.
I've seen every episode of 'Sopranos.'
I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
I never saw the premise as 'Godless' is the story of a town full of women. I always saw 'Godless' as being made up of a lot of intersecting, related stories that literally meet in the final episode.
I usually spend my free time worrying about when I'm going to work next.
It's always nice to be able to play different things.
I think when you're on a show that takes place in N.Y.C. but film it in L.A. there is just a vibe that feels wrong.
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
I think that I do my best work when I'm most comfortable.
I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.
I am determined and resigned to being self-conscious.
I have to do some mental gymnastics as an actor sometimes, to remember not to let certain things in.
It's always nice to be thought of and asked to do anything, let alone something different.
I remember always feeling lucky with Zoey on 'Nurse Jackie' that... she was new at the very beginning. So that gave her everywhere to go.
I'm always trying to memorize lines, whether I understand them or not.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
There's a lot to be said for getting really comfortable in a character.
Theater has always been terrifying to me. — © Merritt Wever
Theater has always been terrifying to me.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.
Saying good-bye on 'Nurse Jackie' was a really big deal, so I'm sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.
I wish feminism wasn't so scary to people. It should be an evolving concept. I think it's an umbrella term to embrace conflicting ideas.
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.
I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
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