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I don't like working in front of a camera.

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My profession is about as far away from growing up in southern Illinois as you can get.

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I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.

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I'm not trying to blow out a camera lens or make the audience's hair go straight back from my sheer volume, sheer energy level.

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No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover.

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I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

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I wasn't turning down film roles, let's put it that way. I was never really on that radar.

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I gravitated back to theatre again, and when I heard about this little independent movie called 'Lady Bird,' I thought, 'This will be a project where I can dip my toe back into the water.'

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I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

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A dream job is to walk right past hair and makeup.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: June 16th, 1955

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