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" Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance. "
Abigail Spencer
Great
You
Learn
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" I'm a big fan of teachers. "
Abigail Spencer
Teachers
Fan
Big Fan
" Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to. "
Abigail Spencer
Empathy
Know
People
" When I was a little girl, I watched old movies maybe shot at Paramount Studios, and the fact that every day I get to drive onto the lot and shoot a show that sometimes takes place in the '40s, it's very interesting. "
Abigail Spencer
Interesting
Day
Place
" Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. "
Abigail Spencer
Feeling
Act
Think
" I have ice cream every week. Maybe twice. I live for ice cream, but not just any ice cream. It has to be locally sourced and usually somewhere I can walk to. "
Abigail Spencer
Week
Ice
I Can
" I love old Hollywood. I love our early film culture. "
Abigail Spencer
Culture
Early
Film
" Chris Messina is awesome. He's amazing. "
Abigail Spencer
He
Amazing
Chris
" Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can. "
Abigail Spencer
You
Wave
Ride
" I'm a huge Katharine Hepburn fan. "
Abigail Spencer
Hepburn
Fan
Huge
" I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies. "
Abigail Spencer
More
Love
Chocolate
" It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. "
Abigail Spencer
Goals
Yourself
Purpose
" My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. "
Abigail Spencer
Reading
People
Father
" 'Rectify' has been beautiful and emotional but grueling. In a beautiful way, in the right way. "
Abigail Spencer
Right
Beautiful
Been
" When I was twenty-six, I had my son. "
Abigail Spencer
Son
Had
" There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing. "
Abigail Spencer
Genuine
Beautiful
Nothing
" Awards are very important for a show like 'Rectify.' We're a small show; we're on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision. "
Abigail Spencer
More
Vision
Important
" I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it. "
Abigail Spencer
Myself
You
Every Day
" I'm always trying to get in water. It is the life source. It's extremely easy to dehydrate working 14 hours a day and on my feet all the time. "
Abigail Spencer
Feet
Day
Water
" I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me. "
Abigail Spencer
Doing
Funny
Appreciate
" My mother was a teacher. "
Abigail Spencer
Mother
Teacher
" 'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies, as is 'Bringing Up Baby.' "
Abigail Spencer
Baby
Movies
Philadelphia
" What happened with 'Mad Men' was I had just had my child, I was in a very literally and creatively fertile time in my life, and I wasn't leaving the house much. So when 'Mad Men' came along, I was so excited to leave the house. Like, I get to go do this beautiful thing. "
Abigail Spencer
Life
Beautiful
House
" I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality. "
Abigail Spencer
Kind
Small
Southern
" I worked for 10 years before 'Mad Men,' and what was great is that when people saw my work, I was just loving working, so it wasn't about anything else than that. "
Abigail Spencer
Mad
Loving
Great