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"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."
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"What we do as actors is we go through phases where you superficially learn all this information."
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"You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can be very embracing and like, kind of stepping into a nice hot tub."
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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
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"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
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"I might have a guitar or a piano on set to play something for the actors."
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"It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
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"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."
Trees
"You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film."
Crisis
"But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it."
Love
"What I needed was a connection to life that was real and lasting."
Life
"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."
Actor
"I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image."
Teenager
"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."
Power
"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."
July
"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."
Work
"I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously."
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