Joyce DeWitt Quotes
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Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.
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I really felt that 'Three's Company' was a gift. When it ended, I had money in the bank and had the luxury to pursue a life that meant something, to learn and discover.
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I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.
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People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.
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Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
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If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.
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Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it.
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When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
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One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.
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Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.