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I was a very good girl for a long time, thats what really drew me

I was a very good girl for a long time, thats 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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Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. Thats what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession. – Joan Allen

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Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously. – Joan Allen

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Its both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy. – Tony Hancock

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I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. – Peter Ustinov

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You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad. – Harry Dean Stanton

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I found out about reviews early on. Theyre mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. Thats probably why Im less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason. – Barry Hannah

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