"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

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"I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive."

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"When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things."

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"When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times."

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"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press."

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"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."

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"One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge."

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"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."

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