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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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I love writing.
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Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?
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I love talking to people and finding out their opinion.
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If I couldn't be Dick Van Dyke, I wanted to be Art Carney.
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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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If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
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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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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 thought of school as a captive audience. It gave me a chance to work on my material.
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I wanted to be a story teller so badly.
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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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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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Everywhere I go, people think I'm Helen Hunt.
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I keep saying I won't go back to television, but I do.
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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
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When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.
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If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.
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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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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.
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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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I'm a blue-collar Chicago girl raised on wonderful movies my mom took us to, ones that had a lot of heart.