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Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read.

Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play Girl Talk to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around. – Carrie Preston

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I got my first big paycheck for My Best Friends Wedding. This was in the days when you actually did get paid to have a supporting role. It just doesnt happen like that anymore, but this was in the 90s. It was the golden age! – Carrie Preston

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wedding
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Thats What She Said is not Hollywoods 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. – Carrie Preston

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There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally. And the way you place them emotionally is often with humor. – David Duchovny

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. – Patrick Warburton

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs — jolted by every pebble in the road. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Appeal. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. – Ambrose Bierce

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