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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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" I grew up in the suburbs. "

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

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