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"I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler."
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"Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star."
"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."
"My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up."
"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
"Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that."
"I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs."
"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
"I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties."
"The thrill I got discovering Buster Keaton when I was growing up was so exciting. He was one of the greats."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?"
"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."
"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."
"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."
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