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Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

Blythe Danner

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
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Different Play Trying
Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.
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Actress Agent Fortunately Job Terrific
I feel a little guilty only being an actor.
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Actors Guilty Littles
I’m mostly a jazz fan and I’ve never really been into rock ‘n’ roll music.
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Fans Jazz Music Rocks Town
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
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Children Cycling Mother Passionate Raise Sweet
Film has always been hard for me, I’m basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.
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Actresses Cameras Film
I’m not an actor who can constantly pick and choose, I try to get the best of what’s there.
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Choose Constant Trying
Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.
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Air Hard Work Real
Part of me says that no life will work if I can’t make this one right.
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Meaningful
You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can’t do that if you’re a musician.
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Diligently Hard Lazy Musician Sometimes Work
My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
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Digging Stuff Theory
It was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
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Acting Play School
You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You’re on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.
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Discipline Night Theatre
Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples’ lives, and sometimes that’s very gratifying. But still, there’s this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.
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Littles Matter Voice
Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.
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Air Children Friends Grandparents
Acting is really only part of my life. I’m addicted to it.
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Acting Addicted Life
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.
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Children Future Responsibility
Maybe subconsciously I’ve kept activism separate from acting because it’s important to me in a more profound way.
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Acting Important Profound
I think I have a lot of crazy layers.
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Crazy Layers Thinking
I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we’re still paying for it.
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Children Generations Thinking
I feel that its our children who do give us hope because they are the ones who are going to save the world.
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Children Giving World

Whether you’re on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can’t settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

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