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I was a huge Ann-Margret fan, and I wanted to be like her.

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Amy Adams
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: August 20
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I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.
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That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.
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I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.
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I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I will always feel the weight of a lie. I'm very hard on myself anyway. Religious guilt carries over too. You can't really misbehave without feeling badly about it. At least, I can't.
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I'm lucky enough to get really interesting and diverse roles offered to me, and I just hope that that continues. I just want to keep expanding as an artist and really try new things.
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Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do the Gap act on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy.
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The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.
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I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.
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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?
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I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.
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I have to say I've been lucky in that way in that I've been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.
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Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.
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I'm really good at gymnastics, and that's about it.
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You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes.
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If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.
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I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras.
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I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.
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I have worked with some of the meanest people in the world. You can't do anything to intimidate me.
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I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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