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" Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job. "
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Job
Every
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" There are so few stories being produced that are human. I suffer with the loss of that. I feel kind of out of place, even though I've continued to work. "
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" I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff. "
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" The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies. "
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" Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy. "
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" I think to do a proper independent movie, in my experience, it takes 22 or 23 days to shoot. That was 'Party Girl' or 'House of Yes.' But now with the digital camera, the budgets have gotten smaller, and the days have gotten shorter. "
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" I really liked playing a vampire. Their hunger is insatiable. Even when they eat someone, it's never enough. "
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" I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.' "
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" I like the two worlds coming together in the Internet space, which is so up for grabs... It all struck me when I heard about Twitter and Instagram, how it's like notes you pass in class. If someone's passing you a note, you really should be doing something else, and instead you're like, oh, 'What are you doing?' "
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" I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. "
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" I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "
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" I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks. "
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" My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. "
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" I'm a good girl, you know? But I'm from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical. "
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" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "
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" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "
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Care
Myself
" Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama. "
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" It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life. "
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" I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role. "
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Heart
Love
" You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them. "
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" What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know! "
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" I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.' "
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" The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance. "
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" Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it. "
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" Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation. "
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" I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life. "
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" It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good. "
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" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "
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Done
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" I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy. "
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" I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. "
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" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "
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Me