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" I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me. "
Amy Adams
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World
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" I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting. "
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" When I died my hair red the first time, I felt as if it was what nature intended. I have been accused of being a bit of a spitfire, so in that way, I absolutely live up to the stereotype. The red hair suits my personality. I was a terrible blonde! "
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" Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress. "
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" I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled. "
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" I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies. "
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" Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. "
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" I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl. "
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" I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. "
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Family
" Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do. "
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I Am
Makeup
Face
" How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers. "
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How
Trust
" My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean? "
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Job
You
" It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy. "
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Ireland
Cozy
Comfortable
" I used to have a lot of superstitions, and then I realized that it was kind of hogwash. Once I let go of them, I relaxed a lot. "
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Kind
Go
Once
" I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour. "
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Then
Apology
" When you're picking up and moving, it does create... well, I can sleep anywhere, which is really useful, it turns out, on movie sets. But what it really does is teach you how to adapt and change and fit into a new group or school, and that really is a lot like turning up to a new movie project and finding your place. "
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School
Place
Moving
" Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.' "
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" I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy. "
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Shoes
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" Once I moved to L.A., there was a dark moment of trying to keep up with the girls I thought were pretty. Until I realised that's the stupidest thing you can do because people are so pretty in L.A.! "
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Thought
Dark
Moment
" I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. "
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High
" I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am. "
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" I was one of seven, and we took a lot of road trips - long road trips. And this was before iPhones and iPads and DVD players in cars. I remember how novel it was when I got my own Walkman so I could listen to music. "
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" I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't. "
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" Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about myself. When I look at my 20s, or when I look at any period in my life, I think about how much time I've wasted trying to find the right man. "
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Age
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