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Vote:   | 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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Vote: | And it's not that I haven't taken a money job here and there but for the most part I have been driven by the need to work on a great script. |
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Vote: | And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten. |
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Vote: | And there were many parts I didn't get. I was always kind of grasping at things. |
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Vote: | Any further recognition is great because it always brings attention to the films and I just want people to see the movies. |
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Vote: | But I do really love watching the news and going back and forth between all the news channels. That's really just kind of the highlight of my day. |
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Vote: | But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever. |
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Vote: | I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally. |
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Vote: | I don't like a lot of rehearsing. |
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Vote: | I have to watch the news or my day is not complete. |
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Vote: | I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. |
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Vote: | I love writers. All of my best friends are writers. |
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Vote: | I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts. |
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Vote: | I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies. |
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Vote: | I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. |
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Vote: | I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy. |
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Vote: | I was never girlish. My sense of humor was never quite the fit. My voice was never high enough. I was never sexy in that way. |
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Vote: | I'd say the majority of the films I go see are art films, but I sometimes like to see big-budget pictures. |
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Vote: | I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. |
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Vote: | I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must. |
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Vote: | I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | I've always wanted to be leading lady/character actress. |
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Vote: | If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride. |
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Vote: | It's maybe a little sweeter now. Maybe it's a little easier now because I have a life and I hopefully am more secure in mind and body and spirit. |
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Vote: | It's never easy with characters in these dark and grave circumstances but that's my job. |
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Vote: | Maybe I have a certain amount of smarts to say yes because I don't care if I'm not going to make any money because I love the part. |
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Vote: | My major was liberal arts, but I studied a lot of theater, Fordham had an amazing theater program - really comprehensive. |
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Vote: | New Orleans. Born and raised. I lived there until I was 19. |
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Vote: | No, in high school I was kind of like a cheerleader. I was a Chargerette. |
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Vote: | See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise. |
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Vote: | The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes. |
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Vote: | The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business. |
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Vote: | Two movies with a combined budget of under a million bucks is like yahoo! |
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Vote: | Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University. |
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Vote: | Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule? |
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Vote: | You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead. |