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I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

Lauren Graham

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Lauren Graham
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: March 16
Actor
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Honolulu
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Lauren Helen Graham
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If you do have something you love to do, the fun part of the job is no different than what was fun about doing it in high school for no money. I thought there would be some greater reward in succeeding.
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
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That's the thing that always stuck out to me - the idea that quantity becomes quality. I always took it to mean if you do anything enough, if you keep putting effort in, eventually something will happen, with or without you. You don't have to have faith when you start out, you just have to dedicate yourself to practice as if you have it.
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All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline.
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If I had a normal job and had been moving up, I'd be management level now.
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I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.
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As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.
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I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.
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Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.
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I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.
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I am here to tell you there's nothing in people knowing you. There's actually a loss in that! Really, the reward in life is genuinely the day of work you have. It's not the name you're making for yourself or the clicks and likes - it's such an illusion.
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Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.
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We're all working hard, but so far away from what we actually want to be doing. We're all peering in at the window of a party we aren't invited to yet, a party we wouldn't know how to dress for, or what kind of conversation to make, even if we came as someone's guest.
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All my references are 50 years old-when somebody shot J.R., you know? Oh my god, I'm 100!
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None of my characters have really had jobs.
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The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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Today is the day you have to start believing in yourself. No one can do it for you anymore.
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The best part of getting to do what you like is just doing it. That doesn't have to do with being famous or even successful or even powerful. I see people in life who are just doing a job and seem to be having a good time. And that's the trick.
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I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing - zero - to do with anything resembling fame.
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