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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.
Allison Janney
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Allison Janney
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 19
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Allison Brooks Janney
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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 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 am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.
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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 wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs it's a silly hobby of mine.
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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'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 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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It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
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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 can access emotions very easily.
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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 trust other people to tell me if it's too far or tasteless, because there's not too much that I won't do. I like to push the limits. Obviously, that's more dangerous and more fun for everybody.
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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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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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