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" I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director. "
Patricia Clarkson
Really
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" I don't like a lot of rehearsing. "
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" I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies. "
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" I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. "
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" And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me. "
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" It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. "
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" I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must. "
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" See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise. "
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" These archetypal older women in movies can sometimes make my skin crawl. It's about the one dimension; it's about the lack of any texture. "
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" I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. "
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" But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds. "
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" But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. "
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" You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. "
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" The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. "
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" Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? "
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" Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever. "
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" I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows! "
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Still
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" I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. "
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" I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally. "
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" When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me. "
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" I have to watch the news or my day is not complete. "
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Day
Watch
News
" And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten. "
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Than
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" New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. "
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New
Until
" I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. "
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Business
" The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. "
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" Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit. "
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" There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously! "
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