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" I definitely felt awkward and I didn't fit in. Other than that, I'm learning that everyone felt that way: even the popular girls. "
Judy Greer
Learning
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" I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem. "
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" I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon. "
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" I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great. "
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" I enjoy the old-fashioned idea of, like, 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby', those old movies. "
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" I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to force myself to sit and write. I'm not used to having to force myself to work. "
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" I've been really fortunate to do so many comedies and then so many dramatic roles and then television and movies and stuff like that. "
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" 'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie. "
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" I was lucky, and once I moved to L.A., I didn't have to get another job besides acting. But I wouldn't trade my previous jobs for anything. "
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" There are a lot of perks when you're an actor. Free food at work was my second favorite in the beginning, but my first was the weird stuff. Like seeing celebrities in no makeup and finding out what they ate. "
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Food
Work
" You've heard the phrase 'There are no small roles, just small actors?' Well, I kind of disagree. There are small roles, but when you get a lot of them in a row, you can become a pretty successful actress, and that's what I've done. "
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Done
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Kind
" I firmly believe that everyone should have to work in the food service industry at least once in their lives. "
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" I would have played any character in an Alexander Payne movie. "
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" I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much. "
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" The truth is that the actresses who I look up to are either my age or a few years older or a lot older. "
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" I really believe waiting tables, and service industry jobs in general, make you a better person. "
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" It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to. "
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" When you do a movie, you don't know when it's going to come out. In a year, you forget about it. "
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Year
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" I feel like everything does happen for a reason, and I can totally look back on my career and the decisions I've made and how it sort of worked itself out. "
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" For a long time, I think my family thought I was living in a $3 million mansion in the Hollywood Hills. "
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" I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting. "
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" I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting. "
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" I'd been dating my husband for about a year, and I'd already kissed George Clooney, Ashton Kutcher and Gerard Butler. Awesome year, right? "
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Year
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" I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool. "
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" I had Madonna parties; I dressed like Madonna, and I had all of her records because we had records back then. I knew all of her lyrics; I was obsessed with her movies and the whole thing. "
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Her
Movies
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" I really love this character I played called Becky Freeley in a T.V. show called 'Miss Guided'. We only shot seven episodes, and nobody watched it, and it was on for, like, a second, but I really liked that character. "
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