"Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret."
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"Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading."
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"Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans."
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"I live with someone, actor Peter Krause, who didn't find an interest in being an actor until the very end of college. So my message is: There's so much freedom left. There's no ticking clock. It's just not true."
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"I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school."
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"That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it."
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"As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process."
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"I'm gonna try to talk about this in a secular way, but where's the spirituality of just being a person? I think it contributes to this rise in bad manners and mean comments; people are being driven by seeking something that's just designed to keep them seeking something. I'm not reducing people in this age to phone-addicted dum-dums, but we have to remind ourselves to also study compassion and inner life as well."
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"While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one."
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"None of my characters have really had jobs."
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"I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on."
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"Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible."
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"Writing a memoir isn't particularly interesting to me. I'm not like Ellen [DeGeneres], where I can write, 'Water bottles--they're crazy!' and it's funny."
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"I'm nice, and I show up on time."
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"I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on"
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"Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST."
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"Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with."
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"We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest."
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"Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks."
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"Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene."
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