Allison Tolman Quotes
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I'm from Texas, and Texas has a reputation that far precedes actual Texas, and it is irritating sometimes.
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I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me.
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I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.
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I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting.
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Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.
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My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'
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The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.
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I read the 'Fargo' hashtag and what people tweeted at me and every article and every comment on every article. I really just ate it up. But I wasn't prepared for hearing what everybody thought of me.
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When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane.
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At Clements, I was an officer in Thespian Troupe No. 3689.
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'The Secret Garden' was the first musical that I fell in love with when I was a kid. My mom took me to see it, and it was the first one that I owned the soundtrack to and listened to over and over again.
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What is right is not always popular.
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I did a lot of commercial and theater work when I got out of school and was living in Dallas, and I moved to Chicago to go through the Second City Conservatory Program.
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I never really acted full-time. I certainly had gotten past the point where fame and fortune was something that I was dreaming about or anticipating.
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I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.
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Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.
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I've met a lot of really friendly people who are incredibly happy for me, which is really flattering and humbling.
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I do find that when I see women who flesh out the television or film world and make it look more like the world I actually live in, I gravitate towards those characters.
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I've been working as an actress and sort of struggling along for ten years, so I've been on a million auditions for a million things I haven't booked.
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Most of the time you spend filming a show is time you spend without the cameras on, when you're not acting.
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I grill, like, every day.
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I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.
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I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years.
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I don't think you realize how often on television people are not like anyone we know or have known.