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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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Allison Janney
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
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Television Actor
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Boston
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Allison Brooks Janney
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I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
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I'm kind of at the mercy of writers out there. I need a writer out there who wants to write a vehicle for me. Do it and get it to me immediately. I do want to be a lead. I want to play a lead role in a movie.
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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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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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The wonderful thing about Crystal in Mr. Sunshine is that she doesn't have any boundaries. She's not aware socially of what's correct and incorrect. Crystal's probably the craziest character I've ever had to do and the furthest I've gone, with the only exception being Away We Go - I was pretty big in that.
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I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?
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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 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 like people trying to do two things at once.
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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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Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
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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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It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
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I'm afraid of flying.
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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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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'm the worst speller on the planet. I'm so glad for spellcheck on my phone.
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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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