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" I've always been kind of a voyeur. "

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" I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training. "

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" When I discovered that, through acting, you can speak a beautiful language aloud and have a relationship to language that isn't one that's just eyes-to-page, pen-to-page - it's one that's full-bodied, full-voiced, full-heart... it really opened my heart and made me feel like I could be a storyteller. "

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