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" Angela Bettis - I can't say enough about her. She is just an incredible presence. She is very petite and soft, while she still has this power that floats around her. "
Lauren Ashley Carter
Presence
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" When you're the good guy in a horror film, you're usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing. "
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" I've always said if you're comparing movies to music, then horror would be the black metal of the categories. "
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" I grew up watching Sean Young films with my father; we've always been huge fans of hers. A surprising fact is that she loves to work on comedies, which was great for me to hear, because then I could ask her a million questions about 'Fatal Instinct,' which was a VHS I wore out from the video store. "
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" Auditioning is a lot of fun for me. "
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" 'Hellraiser' was the first horror film I ever saw, so it will always be a favorite. "
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" I try to keep myself busy creatively; it's for my own sanity after auditioning in the city for bad television shows and bad scripts and not being a name and having the clout to get my tapes passed on further. "
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" I'm a huge Jackie Chan fan, and my boyfriend is Taiwanese, and he doesn't like to read. He had this Jackie Chan book, and I was asking him questions about him, and he didn't know, and I said, 'What do you mean you don't know? You have the Jackie Chan autobiography right there on the bookshelf!' "
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