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"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"You're not famous until my mother has heard of you."
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"When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it."
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"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."
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"When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son."
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"And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett."
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"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
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"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."
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"I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot."
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"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress."
Food
"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."
Play
"I love writing for the screen."
Love
"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
Acting
"I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money."
Money
"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
Mother
"Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much."
Love
"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi."
Christmas
"The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play."
Art
"Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct."
People
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