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I was an Emmy nominee and an Emmy snub.
Carrie Coon / Film Actress
Emmy
Nominee
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There's something about Australia that feels prehistoric.
Carrie Coon / Film Actress
Australia
Prehistoric
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I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.
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Children
Makers
Middle Child
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Literature has always been the greatest fuel for my imagination.
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Fuel
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I think Noah Hawley's writing is hilarious, and I love a good dark joke.
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Hilarious
Dark
Joke
Noah
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I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.
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Grow Up
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I grew up with babies, so babies have never been particularly intimidating to me.
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Intimidating
Babies
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I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.
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Bigs
Book
Reader
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It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material.
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Memorize
Poorly
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I don't believe that art is just for entertainment. I want to create art that is meaningful in some way.
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Meaningful
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As actors, we have to say yes to everything for a really long time. You say 'Yes' to anything you can get.
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Time Long Long Time
Really Long Time
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I rely on poetry or literature to keep me centered before I go onstage because it reminds me to be present.
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Rely
Centered
Onstage
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When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.
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Good Writing
Rhythm
Apparent
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What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.
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Circumstances
Good Writing
Writing
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We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.
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Grasping
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The 'Fargo' characters, they're the characters of my people. They're stoic, hardworking, uncomplaining, and I loved them.
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Fargo
Hardworking
Stoic
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My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online.
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New York Times
Online
Ordering
Review
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Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.
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Sibling
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There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.
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Ambiguity
Our Lives
Life Art Way
Life Art Feel
Neatly
Wrapped
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Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.
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Self Conscious
Fellow
Inevitably
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I really have the good fortune that the actors who work with me on 'The Leftovers' are thoughtful, hard working, open people and generous people.
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Generous
Good Fortune
Leftovers
Thoughtful
Work Good Me
Open
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I didn't expect to pursue acting at all, let alone TV and film, let alone New York or L.A. I was quite content doing Shakespeare out in Wisconsin.
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Pursue
Wisconsin
Shakespeare
Tv And Film
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The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.
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Interesting
Smart
Stories
Art Women Men
Interesting People
Service
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I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.
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Acquisition
English Major
Graduate School
Planning
Thesis
Ended
Graduate
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Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.
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Men
Roles
Years
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I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.
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Bossy
Children
Dancing
Ideas
Loud
Observant
Quiet
Thoughtful
Claim
Contradict
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I've been seeing a lot of theatre in New York, and I am sort of terribly jealous of everyone on stage but also really appreciating it in a way that you can't when you're in the middle of it.
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Jealous
I Am New Way
Appreciating
Terribly
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I've never felt terribly attached to acting because I always feel like the world is really big and really interesting, and there are a lot of places that I can put my energy and be fulfilled.
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Fulfilled
Attached
Terribly
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My family has never understood why I play crazy, angry, depressed people because that is not the way they think of me. They see me as a totally messy, klutzy goofball - kind of weird and hyper.
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Hyper
Messy
Depressed
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I think if people stick with 'The Leftovers,' it's a very rewarding viewing experience. I wanted to be part of that - and what a great cast we got. I wanted to be one of those actors, in that show!
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Leftovers
Experience Great People
Cast
Stick
Rewarding
Viewing
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I always liked church. I was one of those kids who was desperate for the statue of Mary to talk to me, which is a very egotistical approach to your faith. I just wanted somebody to pay attention to me.
Carrie Coon / Film Actress
Approach
Church
Desperate
Egotistical
Mary
Pay Attention
Statue
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I think there is no better training than being onstage because here's the thing: the theater requires you to act with your whole body. I think acting with your whole body gives you a root, and you can build from there.
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Onstage
Root
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My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what they don't understand is that most female parts are written basically as hysterical women.
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Female
Hysterical
Ill
Insane
Understand
Mentally
Family Women Always
Basically
Ended
Parts
Wondering
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Being a literature major, you know, I'm very familiar with the ways symbolism is used in our sort of mythic tales of society, so anyone who is consciously trying to pull that off I think is really interesting and clearly very smart.
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Familiar
Symbolism
Tales
Clearly
Mythic
Pull
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I have my three brothers, and then I have my adopted sister from El Salvador, who is actually the oldest. My brother and I were already born, and then my parents adopted my sister from El Salvador during the war and had two more kids.
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Sister
Adopted
El Salvador
Brothers
Oldest
Salvador
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It's often women who are writing leading roles for women. Most of the stuff that comes my way is not actually about women. I'm just asked to be a supporting player in a story about a man, and I, frankly, was not interested in doing that.
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Men
Player
Writing
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My parents are just really down-to-earth, earnest, hardworking people that don't want for anything. I think that really served me because when you put more value on experience than things, then you're going to go out and have experiences.
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Earnest
Hardworking
Served
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I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she's the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.
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Catholic
Chosen
Sibling
Spirituality
Best Family Mother
Best Family Father
Paths
Priest
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I certainly enjoyed having my sister, because when she came I felt a certain responsibility to help her fit in, and help her learn English. I wanted her to play with all my toys. I was actually, I think, really scary to her, because I had so much energy.
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Play
Responsibility
Thinking
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I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are. For example, Facebook; people who make these Facebook posts about what's happening to them, just so people will chime in and give them positive reinforcement.
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Danger
Posts
Reinforcement
Positive People Will
Facebook
For Example
Reaffirm
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We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this rising action, this powerful conflict, and this falling action. And I think a female hero story is not that. It's something else.
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Conflict
Female
Hero
Rising
Structure
Male
Falling
Something Else
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Inevitably, when directors work with me on a set, they say, 'This isn't what I was expecting. I thought you were going to be very serious.' But I like to stay loose and have a good time and not take myself too seriously. I think, otherwise, you get in your own way.
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Expecting
Time Work Good
Work Time Good
Inevitably
Loose
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I think women have long been defined by their roles as procreators and wives, and we're expected to serve, take care of, say 'Yes,' and not ruffle any feathers. Women, in particular, are sometimes not allowed to consider who they are outside of the roles that they play.
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Women
Care
Defined
Expected
Feathers
Long
Particular
Roles
Take Care
Allowed
Any
Been
Take
Consider
Say
Outside
Serve
Wives
Yes
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I played a lot of moms. You're always too young when you're playing moms. My first kid when I started playing moms was about six months old. And then a month later I was doing another commercial audition and my kid was two, and then about eight months later my kid was 11.
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Kids
Mom
Eight
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There's this thing in TV that I find hysterical where the writers and creators will ask us if you want to know what happens to your character or if you want to experience it episode by episode. In the theatre, we always know the ending; we always know where the character is going.
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Hysterical
Creators
Ending
Episode
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Part of being an actor is the rhythm of the life of being an actor, and that involves coming together with a group of people, making something together that is intense and requires a lot of intimacy, and then walking away from it with the possibility that you will never see any of those people again.
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Intense
Intimacy
Possibility
Rhythm
Life Together People
Involves
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I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.
Carrie Coon / Film Actress
Caught
Grief
Leftovers
Loss
Rhyme
Tragedy
Life Time Important
Dealing
Particularly
Important Time
Rarely
Recognized
Whenever
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