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" I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. "
Amy Adams
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" Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress. "
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" I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am. "
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" I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. "
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" I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't. "
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" I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting. "
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" Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do. "
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" I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. "
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School
High School
High
" Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that's the stupidest thing you can do because people are so pretty in L.A.! "
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Dark
Moment
" Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man. "
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" I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me. "
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World
" I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity. I've really learned that, through surrender, the best experiences of my life have happened. "
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" I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music. "
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" Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.' "
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Moving
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" I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. "
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" When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! "
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Personality
Time
Live
" My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? "
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Job
You
" I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. "
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Stupid
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" I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. "
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Family
" It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy. "
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Ireland
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Comfortable
" I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check. "
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Your
Kids
" When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place. "
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" I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. "
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Girl
" I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. "
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" How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. "
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