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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!"

"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."

"Remember, it's still a mystery to be an adult. If you knew it all before eighteen, you'd have nothing to look forward to."

"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."

"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."

"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, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."

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

"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."
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"I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it."

"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."

"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."

"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."

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