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My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
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I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business.
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I studied with Sandy Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. I was in the last class to study with him before he had his larynx removed, so I actually remember the sound of his voice. He was an incredible teacher.
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I love writing music.
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I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
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There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
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'Last Man On Earth,' I have to say, is a love for me. I mean, a true passion. To people who haven't watched it or who've watched a little and thought, 'Ah, I don't know where this is going,' or whatever, I urge them to check it out again.
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Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
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When you spend three months of your life doing a movie, it's important to enjoy yourself.
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I have never had any success in planning my life, really.
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I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
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For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.
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Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.
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I have hundreds of songs.
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My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
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I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
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A period piece is a great opportunity for an actress. I love acting because I love to pretend, and when you're doing a period piece, then even the time you're in is pretend, so there's that much more to play with.
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I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
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I'm a late bloomer.
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I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
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I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.
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'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.
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I was excited to turn 60.
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I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.