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" I do feel there is a very rabid young base for 'Black Mirror' that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Mirror

Parents

Daughter

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" I grew up in the suburbs. "

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Grew

Suburbs

" I have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is - besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day - you plan what time you're going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning. "

" I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families. "

" I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go. "

" There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor. "

" Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign. "

" I've had friends who did pilots, and I'd say, 'What happened to that?' and they'd say, 'It didn't go,' and it literally goes into a void of nothingness because no one gets to see it. All that money and talent and time put into it. "

" In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity. "

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Humanity

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" The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives. "

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Over

Single

" With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently. "

" I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep. "

" I think you're always drawn to what you love, and I'm always really drawn to things that feel really real and really true to me. I love things that make me think of things in a way I hadn't, and I love looking at people in the world in a way that I hadn't. And sometimes big, huge stories do that for me, but I think I am drawn to smaller ones. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

World

People

" Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring. "

" And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it. "

" There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can't ignore them, because it's not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they're lame. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Human Being

Think

" I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school. "

" I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun. "

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" I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. "

" I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. "

" There's nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child. "

" I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Hair

Feel

" You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they're so nice. They might yell at you, but it's nice. "

" There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean? "

" I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house. "

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" There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you. "

" Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down. "