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" 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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

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" I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches. "

" I grew up in the suburbs. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

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Suburbs

" I'm astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their life to it, maybe go over to Syria, maybe lose their life. Then, the next day, it's a new story. "

" I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood. "

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

" It's funny: I feel like so many people say, 'Monogamy, it's not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,' but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they're married to. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Over

Single

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can't hate James Brown! Who hates James Brown? "

" In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology. "

" I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Cool

Know

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Humanity

Fall

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

" I'm always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I'm amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card. "

" 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

" A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and it's about making money. For me, the project that felt like all of it was 'Rachel Getting Married' because I had such a good time on that movie. Jonathan Demme, to me, is one of the most actor-friendly directors. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Time

Making Money

" I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.' "

" My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!' "

" 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. "

" I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn. "

" I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play. "

" 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 haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Think