Vowell, Sarah Filmography

• A.C.O.D.
  2013, role: actress , character name: Lorraine
• Hit So Hard
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Please Give
  2010, role: actress , character name: Shopper
• Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Assume the Position 201 with Mr. Wuhl
  2007, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Assume the Position with Mr. Wuhl
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell
  2005, role: miscellaneous crew
• Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell
  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell
  2005, role: writer
• The Incredibles
  2004, role: actress , character name: Violet Parr
• Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Man in the Sand
  1999, role: actress , character name: Herself
• End of the Line
  1987, role: actress , character name: Diner Waitress

Famous quotes by Sarah Vowell:

"[In] Shooting Dad, ... There were years and years when he hid out by himself in the garage making rifle barrels and I holed up in my room reading Allen Ginsberg poems, and we were incapable of having a conversation that didn't end in an argument."

"It was such a great time for music. Being in college radio in the '80s, R.E.M. just happened, Elvis Costello was going strong. The biggest, most famous Seattle band was the Young Fresh Fellows. Our town was halfway between Seattle and Minneapolis on I-90, and so we got tons of shows just by virtue of being the gas-money stop on I-90."

"The basic reaction from students is relief that they're made to read something that isn't totally dull, uppity or dreary, ... They think my writing is vaguely entertaining, which I guess a lot of their homework isn't. As Ira says, when people say This American Life is the 'coolest show on public radio' is like being called the 'coolest Osmond.' It doesn't mean that much when you're the most entertaining homework."

"Once a woman spilled a drink on me in an elevator, ... She was dancing and holding a mango margarita and she dumped it on me and tried to dab me with napkins. I said, 'Don't touch me!' and she recognized my voice from This American Life ."

"In my real life I'm more of a walking Woody Allen movie. I'm afraid to drive and I can't swim and all that stuff so it is incredibly thrilling and fun to listen to my voice do things that, when it's in my regular body, it would never get to do."

"It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer)."

"I'm still definitely a journalist, so I work fast. And only with a gun to my head."

"I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine."

"I make my living half as a critic, so I think that opinionated would be a good thing for a critic to be. And I think crankiness has some sort of connotation of individualism,"

"This American Life"

"Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know."

"I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln."

"I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old."

"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."

"Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead."

"I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good."

"Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot."

"What are you hiding? No one ever asks that."

"Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?"

"History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting."