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"L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who."

"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."

"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."

"Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains."

"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."

"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."

"Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in."

"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."

"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"

"When you're a working actor and you're happy to be one, you can't focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself."

"Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up."

"From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers."

"I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch."

"I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting."

"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling."

"I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'."

"I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid."

"So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character."
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