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" I grew up in a film-loving family. We watched the Oscars every year. My favorite thing in the whole world was film. The Oscars obviously was the holy grail. "
Lucas Hedges
Film
World
Family
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" You're living your life the entire time in both worlds - it's not like they say, 'Action' and you're like, 'Here we go, we're in this thing,' because that's where bad acting comes from. "
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" My problem with my parents growing up was not that I was afraid to cry in front of them - they always wanted me to cry because they wanted me to be okay, but it felt kind of icky and gross to cry in front of my parents. So my problem was the polar opposite - I didn't want to cry in front of them because I didn't want to give them the satisfaction. "
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" I'd love to do a love story. I've never done a true love story, which would be awesome. But then again, I don't think I've had a true love story, even in my own life. Maybe that's something I want to explore in my own life first. "
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" I did a theater program the summer of my junior year, and that's when I really fell in love with the craft of acting. It became more about the craft and less about being a working actor. "
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" In high school, I made friends with people in every social group. Or at least that's how I perceived it. I thought they liked me. Maybe they didn't! "
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" I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I got a bigger role. Then, in 7th grade, I played Smike in 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and the casting director saw me and asked me to audition for a movie. That movie led to me getting 'Moonrise Kingdom.' "
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" I meditate - very pretentious - and I try to read as much as I can and swim at the Y. "
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I Can
Swim
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" It's almost like the psychology of a film is no different from the psychology of a person in that it has to function, it has to breathe, it has to have its releases, it has anxiety. "
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" The more you learn to love yourself, the better actor you will be. That's always going to be my training. Every part is, 'How can I learn to love myself more?' "
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Love
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" I am somebody who never came close to a physical altercation, because I was too scared of even getting near one - I'd probably just start crying. "
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" The first thing I ever auditioned for was a movie called 'Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.' And, this is kind of a secret, but it came down between me and the one other kid for it, but I didn't get it, so. "
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Loud
Me
First
" I think I was born to be a clown. I just haven't figured out how to bring that side of myself into the world of filmmaking. It's much more comfortable for me to cry on a film set than it is to tell a joke. "
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World
Think
Me
" It's nauseating for me when I feel like I'm not growing or challenging myself. "
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" In my bedroom, I have my yoga mat and the puppets I've made over the years, and because I'm very into smells, I have some burned sage on my bedside to help clear my head. "
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" Ultimately, I think what I want from my career is to be able to create work for myself, and there's only so much you can do as an actor in a movie. "
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Work
You
Think
" I never really thought it would be possible to keep making films. I thought I'd get to a point where it would just stop happening, and I still sort of feel that way. I don't know if any actor feels like they are going to have a career forever, unless they're a movie star. "
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Feel
Way
Thought
" Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.' "
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Real Life
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First
" The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed. "
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" My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking. "
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She
Brother
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" I think it's true of every great comedy that it's rooted in some dramatic, incredibly personal truth. And it's true of all great drama that there has to be comedy. "
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" I grew up playing squash. I have all these squash trophies in my room... I was, like, third in the country. "
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Up
Room
Playing
" This is my life! I'm not getting a lot of sleep, but I am getting a lot of frequent-flyer miles. "
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" I don't have social media. I don't have Facebook or Instagram or Snapchat. "
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Facebook
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" If I have a career in theater, and nobody knows who I am, I'm all right with that. "
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I Am
" I don't know what's in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to create an environment where I can bring in my favorite people and collaborate with them, and do something that is so much weirder and so different from what you'd see in commercial film. "
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You
Work
" I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments. "
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" When I was in high school, I tried too hard to be cool and to impress people, but playing all these different characters has helped me find myself again. "
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" I have allergic reactions: it triggers my gag reflex when I read unrealistic dialogue from a teenager. "
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" The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns - in the little experience I have doing them - is that there's no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy. "
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" All it really takes to fall in love with a script is to understand, right off the bat, one piece of the story. "
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