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"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl."
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"I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized."

"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."

"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."

"Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes."

"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."

"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."

"Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me."

"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."

"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."
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"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 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."

"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."

"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 don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of."

"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 this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work."

"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."
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