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" One of my last few vices is coffee, but with a spot of almond or soymilk, it's never tasted better! "
Michelle Forbes
Last
Coffee
Better
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" A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration. "
Michelle Forbes
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Life
" I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.' "
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" So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched. "
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" I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that. "
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" Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood. "
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" There's a feeling of immortality you have in youth. You just don't see the dangers around you, or, if you do, maybe you're even excited by them. "
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" I was a massive fan of 'Twin Peaks.' Massive. I don't know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren't astounded, and saying that, I'm still shocked that that was on network television. "
Michelle Forbes
Age
Saying
Know
" That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with. "
Michelle Forbes
American
Up
Think
" In this age of vampires, what I love about 'True Blood' the most is that it's a post-modern take on it. 'Sookie Stackhouse' series author Charlaine Harris and 'True Blood' creator Alan Ball turned that whole mythology upside-down... It's not just about vampires. It's about a lot of different things. "
Michelle Forbes
True
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" People ask me what the appeal of 'True Blood' is and I think there are so many answers to that question, but I think that when there is so much excitement for what you do there is no way that that doesn't become palpable and comes shooting out like bullets. "
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You
True
" When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that. "
Michelle Forbes
People
Political
Time
" For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film. "
Michelle Forbes
Project
Reason
You
" I thought a vegan diet would be too difficult, being on the road so much, but it's been far easier than I thought. "
Michelle Forbes
Vegan
Difficult
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" I'd like to think I'm an actor who leaves things at work. "
Michelle Forbes
Work
Leaves
Actor
" At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind. "
Michelle Forbes
Lost
Blood
Point
" I've never had a plan. You look for different actors you want to work with or different subjects you want to explore, or sometimes it's just a momentary fancy. "
Michelle Forbes
Look
You
Work
" I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves. "
Michelle Forbes
Death
Game
Wait
" When I do watch shows, or projects that I've been a part of, I'm pretty good at watching them objectively. And that's mostly because I want to see how it came out overall, what the overall story was and how it came together visually, what my mates were doing. "
Michelle Forbes
Doing
Want
Together
" It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism. "
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Children
People
Long
" I was deliciously happy filming 'True Blood.' I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow. "
Michelle Forbes
Never
Office
Blood
" I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that. "
Michelle Forbes
Career
Blood
Find
" If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninteresting, boring people behind it. "
Michelle Forbes
Look
Ugly
People
" As an actor, you want as much variety as you can muster up. Otherwise you just keep playing the same chord over and over again. "
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Over
Same
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