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

Rosemarie DeWitt

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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!' "

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" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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" I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it. "

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" 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. "

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