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Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.

Sarah Wayne Callies

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Sarah Wayne Callies
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: June 1
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