“My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actr...” — Katy Mixon Quote

“My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'”

“Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.”

“If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day.”

“Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.”

“Sandy Bullock cast me in my first movie, 'All About Steve,' and I think I weighed 176, so that's just how I rock and roll. I'm just who I am, and if I lose weight, I lose weight. Goodness, I'm trying to be healthy, but if I've got to eat the cupcake, then just eat the cupcake.”

“I'm loving 'We Are Young,' by Fun. Really gets the morning rockin' to a great start.”

“I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.”

“I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.”

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

“There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.”

“I like to work out. I like a routine. I'm kind of simple. I eat almost the same thing every day. I like Caesar salad.”

“How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?”