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"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."
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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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"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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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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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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"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
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"I was a handful growing up."
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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!"
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"Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise."
Life
"The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake."
Home
"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
Age
"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
Death
"I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there."
Work
"To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before."
Acting
"I had never done Shakespeare before, but I don't think you can be an actor and not do it. There were moments when I thought, I'm just not going to be able to pull this off."
Thought
"I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth."
Love
"Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them."
Time
"There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can."
Myth
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