Allison Tolman Quotes
I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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I think this show I'm going to do,' Awake,' if it's done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.
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I think that a great newspaper is one that puts a real premium on digging to get the story behind the story.
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I played a very complex, multidimensional character - Piglet in 'Winnie-the-Pooh' - at age 7 in England.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.
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I'm hoping I can evade a type and go for roles based on what I consider plausible and what I consider good.
