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" The maternal instinct is in me. "

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" My whole thing is there is nobody else like you in this whole world. "

" I grew up with six girls and one boy, so my innate instinct of who I am - I'm the third oldest, and I helped raise all of my younger sisters. I just fall into that aspect - that motherhood - naturally. "

" Sandy Bullock cast me in my first movie, 'All About Steve,' and I think I weighed 176, so that's just how I rock and roll. I'm just who I am, and if I lose weight, I lose weight. Goodness, I'm trying to be healthy, but if I've got to eat the cupcake, then just eat the cupcake. "

" I am such a big fan of letting everyone know how special they are and what they contribute. "

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" My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.' "

" I went to the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. "

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" In real life, I'm very different from Sarah Dunn. She's from the North. I grew up in the South. I wear big hoop earrings. I love me some makeup, and that's not her at all. "

" I'm just not self-deprecating. "

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" It doesn't matter what gender you are, or it doesn't matter what other background you come from: everybody deals with insecurity. "

" I've always wanted to be a mommy. "

" Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season. "

" Everybody understands, for whatever reason, what it's like to not fit in, or not do it right, or not be perfect. "

" You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey. "

" If you're not getting it perfect, life is still going to go around. The world still turns. It's going to be OK. Tomorrow is a new day. "

" I came from the theater. It takes a team. We need everyone. It's not just No. 1 on the call sheet. I love to have kindness and respect and a place for where we can create. "

" You literally just have to celebrate who you are, because that's a beautiful thing. "

" You have to keep your eyes wide open and your head high and realize that you are going to be OK. I do this with work and with being a mom - I'm a true believer that it's OK to fail, and that there is power in getting back up on the horse. "

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" I do life fearlessly. "

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" I'm pretty simple. I have every product in the world, but I tend to use three things: cleanser, toner, and moisturizer. "