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I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

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Allison Janney
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Boston
Massachusetts
Allison Brooks Janney
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Don’t ever underestimate the power of mentoring someone, or helping some young actor, doing a favor for them, or introducing - everyone needs somebody to help them along when they’re first starting out.
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Aaron Sorkin wrote me one of the best female roles on television, I think. He's a wonderful writer for all people. If he chooses to write, hopefully he'll write something that involves more women next time, because I would love to do it.
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I think it was a subject matter that The Social Network didn't involve a lot of women. That's all I think it is.
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I can access emotions very easily.
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One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There are women in history throughout the world that need to be portrayed. Women don't stop being interesting at 20, they get more interesting and more fascinating and people are going to have to write about them. We're undeniable.
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An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
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Comedy is a serious business. It's frustrating when I can't find the right thing that makes the crew laugh. If I don't make them laugh, I get very disappointed in myself. You don't really have a live audience, so you just depend on the crew to let you know if you're doing something funny.
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It's a challenge for me to make people like me. Maybe it's just my desperate need for people to like me, that I choose the characters I have to play. You will like me, I don't care what I've done, you're going to like me.
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I got offered that role in Transamerica that Felicity Huffman did. That was a part that I was like, Well, maybe I should've done that. I'm at peace with it, but that is one thing that I did turn down that went on to do great things for her. I wonder what would've happened if I would've done that.
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I'm the worst speller on the planet. I'm so glad for spellcheck on my phone.
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The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.
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It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
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It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life.
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I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour.
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I love working on the fly when the writers come up with new jokes on show nights. It's exciting. I love it so much.
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I'm not very comfortable being an actorvist so to get to do something that I believe in is a much more comfortable way for me to be political.
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I never stop. I don't want to stop acting because I'm afraid it'll all end, so I never say no.
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It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.
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I grew up with brothers. I love men. Of course it's hard to be a woman in a man's world.
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I do like ensemble work. I would like to do a lead role, though. I didn't shy away from that. I'm desperately looking for a lead role to do in a film, an independent film, and it just hasn't come my way yet. I'm desperately looking for that role that will put me in a lead category. Or a television series.
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