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"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."
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"Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action."

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."

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"I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera."

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