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I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
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When you're the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
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If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
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Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
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I love writing.
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Not only do people stop me on the street to say, 'We're walking, we're walking', but I have actually been in restaurants where the hostess was saying it to customers.
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To have children on the set, you realize that if a 10-year-old can do it, who are you kidding? It humbles you.
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I only have one job, and that's being a storyteller.
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I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.
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I thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
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I worked at a nursing home though high school... There's a lost appreciation for a generation that has so much to tell us when we're so full of self-help books and doctors on TV.
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I think what happens is that some writers, who are so great in television or whatever, once they become successful, they get out of the loop of real life. It's real hard to draw on something to write.
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I would hope to have some of the same audience that Oprah has earned. And I would love to earn that, as well.
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My mother gets told, 'Oh, you're so lucky that your daughters are doing so well.' She never corrects anybody when they assume Helen is her daughter.
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I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
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When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
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I don't think this is the end of Oprah, it's only the beginning. I have a feeling that she'll probably have her own station, and continue to do what she does.
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The thing about Pixar, they don't do the 'trend is your friend.' They're really about timeless story telling, and that's pretty great.
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Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.
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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
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I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'
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I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.
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I was a good kid.
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Barry Levinson saw me on a tape and put me in 'Rain Man' as the waitress who dropped the toothpicks. The scene was talked about a lot. Then, all of a sudden, I started to get more auditions.