Ann Dowd Quotes
In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't want to be a bust.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth.
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I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
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It requires strength of character to act upon one's ideas; it requires no less strength of character to resist being seduced by them.
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
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In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.
