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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.

Allison Janney

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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
Acting
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Afraid
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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 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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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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The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.
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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 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 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 never watched Lost. I just thought it would be fun to be part of something that was such a big part of pop culture. But I thought I was going to be acting with more of the other people. I didn't know that I was going to be on my own on the island, doing this whole other storyline.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The live aspect is so thrilling, I get nervous again. It's like going on stage.
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