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I learn from each experience, and I take it for what it is and gain what I can.
- Joan Allen
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#Gain
#I Can
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#Take
My collaboration with Sally Potter on a small movie, 'Yes,' was very special to me. It helped my growth as an actor.
- Joan Allen
#Collaboration
#Growth
#Me
#Special
#Yes
I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
- Joan Allen
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#Down
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I have three wonderful siblings, and we all pitched in equally to help our mother.
- Joan Allen
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#Mother
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#Three
#Wonderful
I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.
- Joan Allen
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#Being
#More
#Star
#Think
I'm pretty picky about plays.
- Joan Allen
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#Picky
#Plays
#Pretty
I get recognised sometimes. But I just live my life. I get on the bus, I get on the subway, it's not a problem.
- Joan Allen
#Bus
#Life
#Live
#My Life
#Sometimes
I don't have a political bone in my body.
- Joan Allen
#Body
#Bone
#Political
It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.
- Joan Allen
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#Great
#Know
#Laugh
#People
I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.
- Joan Allen
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#Middle
#School
#Thought
#Wanted
Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film or independent film, is the story being well told? Is it interesting? Is the character interesting? And is there something about the character that may stretch me?
- Joan Allen
#Character
#Everything
#Independent
#Me
I'm not a huge risk taker. I think that, for me, I take certain kinds of risks, but if you look at me, you wouldn't say I was a big risk taker. I'm not going to jump out of an airplane and parachute and things like that. That's not really me.
- Joan Allen
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My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a psychotic break. She was OK one day, and the next day she was completely cuckoo, violent, paranoid.
- Joan Allen
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#Mother
#One Day
#Poor
#She
I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.
- Joan Allen
#Certainly
#End
#Get
#Rope
#Times
I was a very good girl for a long time, that's what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.
- Joan Allen
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#Good
#Long
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