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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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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
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"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."
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"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 have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
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"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
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"There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify."
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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up."
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"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."
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"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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"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."
Movies

"In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!"
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"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."
People

"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."
Learning

"The worst thing a man can ever do is kiss me on the first date."
Kiss

"If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money."
Money

"I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head."
Time

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

"I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him."
Life

"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."
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