Catherine Keener (Actor)

"... the way I decide whether or not to do a job is I meet the director first, and if I think, Oh, I could hang out with this person for a couple of months, I'll begin to consider it. And then there are the other people in the project - their work or their personalities. And finally, of course, there's the material." - Keener to Interview magazine, November 2005

"I don't do a lot of press and stuff like that, only because - ugh, let's face it, who wants to? I'm not in big movies, but the movies that I am in now all have big stars in them, so they have to do more press than I do. That's part of my grand plan. It's a much more preferable life for me. You want your private life to remain private. And I'm guarded anyway. I've told you too much already!" - Keener to The Miami Herald, Oct. 31, 1999

"I met my husband, Dermot [Mulroney], on a movie set for something called 'Survival Quest' (1989). One day I started drowning. I'm getting carried down the river and Dermot jumped in to save me. He was the only one out of a hundred crew guys who inconvenienced himself. Anyway, we were carried two miles down the river together. Dermot and I fell in love even though we were both with other people at the time." - Keener quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 16, 1998

"One director said I just wasn't sexy. It was hard, really hard. I left town for two months with my tail between my legs. But you have to kind of go, Okay, maybe I'm not their idea of [sexy], but hell, I can have sex!" - Keener to Entertainment Weekly, April 21, 2006

On her work in the Pat Morita cop show "Ohara" (ABC): "I was so bad! Thank God those shows are not on the air anymore. I played a little cop sidekick named Cricket. I didn't know what I was doing. I did 10 episodes, and then they recast. I got fired essentially." - Keener to Rene Rodriguez in The Miami Herald, Oct. 31, 1999