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Nia Long

"I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not."

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"I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"This is my present, you know. My present from Mother."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"My mother had morning sickness after I was born."

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Charlotte Eriksson

"It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is."

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Nia Long
"You need the words, you need the script, you need the material, you need the commitment, you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers, we depend on producers, directors depend on us and once things are in the divine order as they happen."

Commitment

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Nia Long
"It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and so when I have these auditions for these big movies, I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently."

Movies

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Nia Long
"We're all in the service business. If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am. A little bit of crazy is good. It keeps things - balanced."

Business

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Nia Long
"I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward."

Work

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Nia Long
"First of all when you're a mommy like you like the consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind, I know I have financial, you know stability."

Peace

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Nia Long
"We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet."

Fun

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Nia Long
"I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it, I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority."

Son

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Nia Long
"I was happy she got it and I have to sort of - and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty girl and play it down and let it be about the work."

Work

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Nia Long
"I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family."

Family

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Nia Long
"I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come."

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