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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. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

World

People

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Rosemarie DeWitt

Grew

Suburbs

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

" 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 have a two-year-old at home, and my whole life is - besides revolved around keeping this little person alive, just watching them on the stairs and eating food and everything of every minute of every day - you plan what time you're going to bed so that you can be your best self first thing in the morning. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives. "

Rosemarie DeWitt

Over

Single

" 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!' "

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

" 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 don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. "

" I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn. "

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "