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"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."
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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."
"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."
"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
"I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."
"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 think from here on it's up to me to prove that I'm growing up and that I have other things to say, but in terms of the show it definitely gave me all of the opportunities I've had so far."
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"My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad."
"And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that."
"If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have."
"A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it."
"My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it."
"Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends."
"People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something."
"I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God."
"I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help."
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