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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I finished high school, I didn't have much direction - I was a Deadhead kid who ended up bumming around London seeing a lot of theater. That's where I saw the performance that made me want to act: Vanessa Redgrave doing 'A Touch of the Poet.'
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
My God, I have so much bounty in my life.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm dying for people to let me be funny!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think being a mom changed me, and now it's not just about what I want to do and what's sort of interesting, but what I absolutely have to do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm asking people to give me two hours of their time, it's because I really feel like they need to listen to what the writer is talking about.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love seeing people in their mess. I find that heartwarming. Charm just doesn't interest me. If I want to see charming people, I can watch TV.
- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to find a way to represent something that is truly frightening on stage is a fascinating challenge.
- Naive
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actress, you have to be very naive.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been told I'm bright. But when I act, I get incredibly stupid. I feel my intellect slowing down. I feel it happening physically. And that's not negative in acting!
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a point in any project where you have to say - whether you like or understand the character, or the whole play for that matter - 'I believe!'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, I missed my era because I'm big and messy and have big feelings and take up space on a stage rather than being diminutive and childlike in my woman-ness.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a spooky kid; that was just my nature.
- Darkness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tim Burton is an artist who has had a huge influence on me. I definitely share his sensibility. It's a joyful approach to darkness.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been around the block.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not familiar with an unaccepting family. But in my profession, nothing can be foreign.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first play I ever did was with Michael Langham, Brian Bedford, and Colm Feore, at Stratford Festival. That was my first professional job, and I got to work with Garland Wright and so many great artists.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know all my tricks, and I'm pretty bored with them, so if that's all someone wants, I'd rather wait for TV money and not work so hard.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I do a play, I'm like, 'When do I get to do the one where I wear a gown, sit in a chair, and say funny things?' I'd love to do that.
- Contract
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really interesting because I'm a Quaker... so it's been radical to me to be hired by the Department of Defense under contract.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in saying no.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always hear about the disempowered actor, their fate in other people's hands. It's just really wonderful to experience it the other way around.
- Amazing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are in this amazing age of television where there's an incredible amount and an incredible quality of television, of long-form narrative.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
How do you stand tall and strong as a woman while trying to be the smartest woman in the room and try to remain non-threatening?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You talk through what exactly happened to Howard Dean on the campaign trail, what Bill Clinton must have lived through, what the daily grind of doing what these people have to do. And they can never lose their temper, they can never be tired, and they can never slip up, or it's on-camera, and it's everywhere - and it's over.
- Park
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.
- Leader
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who wouldn't want to play the leader of the free world?
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get to play a lot of powerful, smartest women in the room. And that's deeply satisfying.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to an art school in high school and got in a little trouble like you do when you're a teenager and not being closely supervised. I did. I followed the Dead around, and it was fun. It was great. It was kind and sweet and lovely.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, the '80s, as crazy as the '80s were, that was a surprisingly kind and generous environment that I found myself in as a teenager.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ended up landing in London out of high school, and I saw a performance that Vanessa Redgrave gave, just because it was a cheap ticket, and I didn't know what to do with my afternoon, and I went in, and I saw this Eugene O'Neill play, and I sat in the fifth row, and I watched her.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look presidential. I don't wear, you know, three-piece suits and have my hair perfectly coiffed.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
By nature, my default place is a very introverted one, so it's funny to be in such an extroverted profession. I'm a little inappropriately in it.
- Nov 07, 2020