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Carrie Preston Quotes

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: June 21, 1967

Topics

Women Girl Crazy Fashion Picture

In 'Queer as Folk,' we had three or four sex scenes in every episode, so I got used to doing that very early on. Those kinds of scenes can be challenging. They take a bit of time, and everyone's a bit nervous.

Time Doing Early Sex Three Nervous

Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

Amanda Seyfried

Time Crazy Brain Think Feel Person

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

Sumner Redstone

Environment Adapt Need Competitive

Game is bipolar. One day he's this way, the next day he's the next.

Day Game One Day Way Next Bipolar

When movies work or a TV series, when they really work, it's because of the collaborative effort. Competition is the death knell for anything, in my opinion. Especially in Hollywood. When actors are competing against each other, or when directors are competing against actors, it's usually the beginning of the end.

Work Beginning Death Effort Opinion

If I don't see my kids for six days, I start to get withdrawal pains.

Start See Days Pains Get Kids

I'd like to get a chance to wear two different hats in the business. I also think it would be really great to do an adaptation of a great novel.

Business Great Chance Think Hats

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

Myself Start Thought Interesting Now

When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

Life Time Balance Story You Person

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

Want Prove Point Artists Necessarily

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Day Sun Me Black Feel You

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.

Me Nobody Hollywood Knew TV I Came

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