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"I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to."
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"Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children - if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them."
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"We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out."
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"Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot."
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"I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else."
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"I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type."
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"The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many."
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"I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film."
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"Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America."
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"I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries."
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"I hate it when people call me a teen queen."
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"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."
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"And then, as the years went on, I just kept moving along, busting into doors and getting roles, until I started to actually believe that what these other people were saying was true."
People

"Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody."
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"The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced."
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"I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office."
Life

"Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience."
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"All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle."
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"Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had."
Character

"Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that."
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"I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route."
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