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"I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."
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"Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me."
"Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents."
"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, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
"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."
"I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up."
"We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up."
"As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed."
"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
"You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess."
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"So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and people accept that. It's really the roles you give yourself."
"If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition."
"I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius."
"I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves."
"Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something."
"It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people."
"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"
"Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live."
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