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All the great roles are tough-cookie roles, They’re the women you meet and can’t forget. They’ve got stuff! They’re generally women who have met and not allowed themselves to be overcome by challenges.

— Mercedes Ruehl

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It’s hard to get a job after that, People think you want more money.

You have to keep pressing through despair.

Obviously it’s very different because this is the great cathedral of nature, but it’s calming to my spirit and restful and refocuses you on what is beautiful and important.

It’s from people seeing you even in classes and talking about you that eventually your name and what you do gets known, if you care passionately enough about the art of acting.

I don’t like to go over territory that I’ve explored before. And I’d never played a peasant woman.

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