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I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

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Jenna Fischer
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: March 7
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Television Actor
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Regina Marie Fischer
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I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.
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Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.
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I say it was like this accidental research that I did for eight years. I had no idea I was researching the role of my career. But yeah, and there was this one casting director named Allison Jones, and for five years she would call me in every year for a different TV show and she just really was a big supporter of mine.
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I always worry that people are going to be very confused sometimes timelines get confused with how movies get made. So when I say, Oh, I made this movie when I was going through a divorce, people think, Oh no! She's pregnant with a child and divorced?
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When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
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Growing up, I was a very shy, wallflower type. I was not a nerd, but not popular. I was just invisible, like that person you probably didn't know you were in school with.
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I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.
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Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.
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I'm a believer in the parent first, friend second philosophy, and trying to find that balance.
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It makes it really hard to just go to a dinner party because, in my work life, I'm surrounded by the funniest people, ever. I'm really spoiled. I laugh a lot, in my day.
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I think we all spend, sometimes, more time at our jobs than we do at home, and there are people that we wouldn't necessarily choose to spend so much time with. So those irritations and those, just those situations I think are really relatable.
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The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.
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I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.
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I'm not prepared for a zombie apocalypse. I need more bottled water, a shotgun, and stronger abs. I have plenty of canner food.
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I get really excited about jewelry.
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I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
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I was definitely raised this way. My folks are very grounded, normal people, and I wasn't raised in the entertainment industry. I just grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, in a very normal family. I wasn't a child actor or anything like that.
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I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.
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I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
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As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
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