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

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 feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue. "

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" 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. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I grew up in the suburbs. "

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" I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families. "

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" I'm not on any social media; I don't even know what things are. I'm so behind the times. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. "

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" I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign. "

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" Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring. "

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" 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? "

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" I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house. "

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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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" 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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" There's nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child. "

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

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