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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.
- Busy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like lying around on the beach. I like to be busy.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV.
- Hard Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Emeril' came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don't regret it. I had a really good time.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shot all my stuff on 'Arrested Development' in one day, and was brought into a really well-oiled machine. 'Cause it was the last season, and they were wrapping up a lot of stuff because they knew at that point that they weren't coming back. There seemed to be kind of a freedom, and certainly the cast had a great amount of camaraderie.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Good Wife' was definitely the biggest surprise and gift that I've had in a long time, and that did come out of some other work that I had done. That whole adage of 'work begets work' actually worked in that case - it was at the very end of their first season that my character was first introduced.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a character actor and I get lost in these characters, so I think it's only recently that people have begun to connect dots and go, 'Oh, that's the same person that did this, this, this, this and this!' which I take as a compliment. One time somebody called me an illusionist, and that was the nicest thing anyone has ever said.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.
- Gauge
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- Nov 07, 2020
We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And often these interactions are interpreted for, described for, processed by our women friends. Relationships are the conduits through which flows our connection with each other.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got my first big paycheck for 'My Best Friend's Wedding.' This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesn't happen like that anymore, but this was in the '90s. It was the golden age!
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a great amount of respect for what a manicurist does - now, when I go and get my own nails done at a nail salon, I have a lot of respect for what they're doing. Especially any kind of intricate work that they're doing is... it's a real art form.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always just drawn to those roles that present one way and have many other things going on underneath. It's just more fun to play as an actor.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them up a little bit - make them layered and complicated and not all stereotypes.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival that I felt like my career started.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at Shakespeare in the Park in N.Y.C. That show transferred, so I got to make my Broadway debut doing 'The Tempest' with Patrick Stewart.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I do episodes of 'The Good Wife,' I talk to the director and say, 'I'm trusting you to let me know if it's too much! I won't be offended.' So I put myself in their hands, and most of the time they let me do my thing, but sometimes they'll say, 'Let's try this.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watch a lot of television. I love doing it, obviously, but I really love watching it.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do like to get inspired by and support any female leads.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting or not getting the job isn't an indicator of your abilities. You're going to get jobs when you think you sucked, and you're not going to get jobs when you think you rocked.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to cut your hair or color it because it makes you stand out and helps with your brand.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020