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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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Excitement

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Suburbs

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they're so nice. They might yell at you, but it's nice. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Human Being

Think

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Hair

Feel

" 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? "

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

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

" 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

" I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn. "

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

Rosemarie DeWitt

Cool

Know

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

" 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. "

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

" 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