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"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
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"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"

"Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up."

"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."

"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."

"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."

"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."

"I never felt like I belonged in Minnesota when I was growing up there. That's why I was out the door as soon as I turned 18."

"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."

"You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up."
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"I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art."

"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."

"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."

"The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."

"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
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