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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
"I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere."
"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."
"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
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"When I was 18 I went to college for two years and didn't work for a year which was essential for me, because my identity had been so influenced by my being an actor and I think I just needed to discover what it was to be myself, divorced from all that responsibility."
"You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film."
"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."
"I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off."
"There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you."
"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
"I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse."
"I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again."
"I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it."
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