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The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.
Allison Janney
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Allison Janney
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
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Boston
Massachusetts
Allison Brooks Janney
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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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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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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 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 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 tell when men are threatened by my height.
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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 love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs it's a silly hobby of mine.
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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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Annette Bening should've won Oscar for American Beauty. I mean, I know Hilary Swank was there, she was so great too... Annette deserves one. She better win. I'm an Academy voter, and I voted for her.
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I like people trying to do two things at once.
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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'm afraid of flying.
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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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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 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 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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