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If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

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Allison Janney
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
Actor
Actress
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Boston
Massachusetts
Allison Brooks Janney
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I think one of my big skills is making unlikable characters likable or real in some way. No matter how hateful people are, there's always something vulnerable about them, or something that you can understand or relate to. I think that's my job as an actress - to find those.
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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 am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
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It was terrifying when Aaron Sorkin announced that he was leaving West Wing, he and Tommy Schlamme. We felt like our parents were abandoning us. It was a tremendously sad day and I'm sure I will never understand exactly all the reasons why that happened.
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I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and “I'll get it better tonight.” So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting.
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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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One of the things I love about acting is other actors, looking into their eyes, and working off them, and listening and responding to them.
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I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
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It was great to have a Republican character as likeable as Alan Alda was in the West Wing. He was one Republican I would probably vote for he was old school.
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The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.
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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 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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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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Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.
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I just wish that I had a part in everything Aaron Sorkin wrote. Sometimes I wish I was a member of an acting troupe where we all just kept working together, the same people. I can't, unfortunately, be in everything he writes. I'm excited for him, but I'm jealous that I wasn't a part of it.
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It's a little weird accepting your voice coming out of an animated character. You don't buy it at first because it's your voice and none of us like our voices when we hear them recorded back.
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I can access emotions very easily.
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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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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
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I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
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