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" I do tend to divide my childhood into darkness and light, and the first seven years were certainly the darkness. "

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" I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through. "

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" I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want. "

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