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- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.
- Late Bloomer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to feel sexy and pretty and young as long as I can.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really am at peace with not being a mom.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to lose.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can sit down at the piano and make you think I know how to play the piano because I know, like, the beginnings of four songs.
- Crafts
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love arts and crafts.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a hard fit at a young age. I didn't make sense as an ingenue or a leading love-interest lady.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to do a James Bond-y kind of villain!
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a beautiful feeling to be out on the ice, breathing in the cold air and hearing the blades hit the ice. It's kind of romantic.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say I'm 5 feet 12 inches. I'm definitely 6 feet. In my heels, I'm 6 feet 3 inches.
- Maybe
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, maybe I'm too competitive for my own good.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm afraid of flying.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can access emotions very easily.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can tell when men are threatened by my height.
- Happier
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like people trying to do two things at once.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.
- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never know how I'll feel on any given day, but I've got to look around me and take what I got and find some inspiration, some anger.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, everybody told me I was good. I was playing ping-pong with my father, and he'd say, 'That's a good shot,' but I'd mess up the next one, and I'd yell, 'Don't tell me that! I'll mess up! Just don't say anything!' You know, if someone says, 'You can't do that,' then I'm going to be, 'Yeah, you watch me.'
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real trick to auditioning is just letting go of trying to please them. Make it your own. That took me a long time to learn.
- Harsh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my career, I am so so happy and grateful for everything I've gotten to do. And yet, I wish I had started off earlier so I could, I don't know... I certainly have not not gotten work because of my age, but I'm just gonna pray and hope that the roles will still keep coming as I get older.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel better when I'm working. I tend to not know who I am when I'm not working. That worries me a little bit... I've been fortunate to be so busy, but I haven't developed any other skills.
- Extraordinarily
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it was a beautiful story.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only guilty pleasure I have is pasta.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those actors who fall into the camp of never wanting to look at themselves on camera ever, thank you very much. I do not and will not, because I am my worst critic.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been with a group of people for that long. I mean, even my family I don't think I know as intimately as the people I worked with on 'West Wing.'
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every character I do has a bit of my mum in her. She's like the doyenne of Dayton, Ohio.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020