Annie Baker > Quotes

“Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)”
― Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation

“Lauren: Hey. Um. This is kind of a weird - but do you ever wonder how many times your life is gonna end?

A pause.

Schultz: Uh... I'm not sure I know what / you--

Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)”
― Annie Baker, The Vermont Plays

“I will say that meeting him was like walking out of a dark wood. He's not perfect and I'm not perfect and we have our hard times but I remember moving towards him through Terminal 4 and it was like emerging from the cold and into the sun.
Like waking up from the bad dream that was my life before him.
And all the confusion and fear and self-hatred that I'd always felt in the presence of other people...
I was shedding it like a skin.
The spell had ended.
And I remember thinking: everything is possible.
If this is possible, anything is possible.”
― Annie Baker, John

“This isn’t like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like — feed ourselves with.”
― Annie Baker

“Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start.”
― Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation

“But the truth is... I mean... I haven't said this. But... I think the problem is not my father so much as my fear of being my father. Like if I run away too hard from him I will become something else that is also problematic.”
― Annie Baker, Circle Mirror Transformation

“I went mad and then I was 45, which was older than I thought I'd ever be, and then I was
50, which was older than I thought I'd ever be when I was 45, and then on the night of my
57th birthday I went blind and I stood naked in the middle of my bedroom and all of a
sudden I was at the center of the universe, facing out. No more trying to get in anyone
else's head. Oh, what does she think of me? What does that man bagging my groceries
think of--nope. It's just me! Alone in the universe! Standing in the center of my own life.
I can't even look in a mirror. It's just me and my thoughts and sometimes I have no
thoughts at all. Sometimes I just lie in bed in the morning and think about nothing.
Imagine that.
Before you take a break, imagine that.
Sitting in the center of your own life with no thoughts at all about what other people are
thinking.
They can think whatever they like.
You can all think whatever you like about me.”
― Annie Baker, John