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" I was so grateful to win an Emmy, but just being nominated, it's not overrated! "
Ann Dowd
Overrated
Grateful
Being
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" My parents were strict but loving. "
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Parents
Were
" My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us. "
Ann Dowd
Mother
Eye
Started
" I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder. "
Ann Dowd
Way
Student
You
" When I was pregnant with my first child, I was 35 years old, and I was working in a pet shop. "
Ann Dowd
Working
Old
Child
" Wherever the career wasn't going the way I wanted it to, I would experience those disappointments, and I would put them somewhere where I could say, 'Come on now, you're still working. Keep your focus where it belongs.' "
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Way
Experience
You
" Two of my aunts are Catholic sisters. "
Ann Dowd
Sisters
Two
Catholic
" I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me. "
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School
High School
Me
" I have a family and children I adore and a husband who's wonderful. "
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Wonderful
Children
Family
" When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the most beautiful moments, hands down, of my life. "
Ann Dowd
My Life
Beautiful
Life
" All I ever wanted was a successful career as an actress. "
Ann Dowd
Successful
Actress
Career
" I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.' "
Ann Dowd
Stand Up
Stand
Say
" TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult. "
Ann Dowd
TV
Really
Difficult
" When I think of those in the 'far right' or those who are pro-life to the extreme and at all costs protect the unborn, the thing that enrages me is you want to ask every one of them, 'How many foster children are in your home now?' "
Ann Dowd
Think
Me
Home
" It's a question of dropping the armor and getting up and doing the work you want to do. And film at first is frightening because you are like, 'What's that camera doing?' But then it becomes family and therefore a really wonderful experience. "
Ann Dowd
Family
You
Experience
" I have to say my background was mostly theatre, which I love, and it took a long time to feel comfortable there. That's probably true of anyone's career. "
Ann Dowd
Love
Theatre
Time
" The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass. "
Ann Dowd
Education
Years
School
" I was the second oldest of seven children, and chores were a way of life for us. If your task wasn't completed, you were called right back to finish it. "
Ann Dowd
Back
You
Way
" I think women are used to stepping up and getting the job done when you need to. "
Ann Dowd
Need
Done
Job
" Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of grace. Whether you believe in God or not, something happens, and it's transformative. "
Ann Dowd
Fighting
Forgiveness
God
" In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes. "
Ann Dowd
Love
Character
Falling In Love
" Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there. "
Ann Dowd
Life
More
Perspective
" The day after Trump was elected, I happened to be home in New York. I went to bed for the day. "
Ann Dowd
Happened
Bed
Day
" I look at all these wonderful actors who are out of work, and I don't know what accounts for my good fortune, but I'm grateful for it. "
Ann Dowd
Look
Work
Out
" It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals. "
Ann Dowd
Mean
Catholic
Funny