Quotes by Joan Allen - Page 1

I'm pretty picky about plays.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Picky
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I don't have a political bone in my body.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Body
Bones
Political
Bone
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I love to walk three to four miles a day if I can.
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Miles
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I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.
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Different
Film
Looks
Pin
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I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.
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Ends
Rope
Certainly
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I didn't really think about being a movie star. I was more about theater.
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Movie Star
More Being Think
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I thought that I wanted to be a cheerleader because I was one in middle school.
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Cheerleader
Middle School
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I learn from each experience, and I take it for what it is and gain what I can.
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Gain
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My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.
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Not Talking
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I have three wonderful siblings, and we all pitched in equally to help our mother.
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Sibling
Equally
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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 / Film Actress
Problem
Sometimes
Subway
Life My Life Sometimes
Recognised
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My collaboration with Sally Potter on a small movie, 'Yes,' was very special to me. It helped my growth as an actor.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Collaboration
Potter
Sally
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I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir... I played the cello badly. I did plays.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Choir
Good Girl
Honour
Badly
Cello
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When I was 20 years old and first with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, we had an 88-seat theater in a basement and no money.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Steppenwolf
Basement
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There are not many things that can happen much worse to a family than having a member taken and not knowing what happened to them.
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Not Knowing
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My favorite thing is to hang out at my house, be on my beautiful property, prune bushes, take a long walk, build a fire, and read.
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Property
Bushes
Favorite Thing
Prune
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I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Integrity
Regard
Strong Women
Thinking
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I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Acting
Adults
Recognise
Small Town
Thinking
Adult
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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.
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Opportunity
Sad
Acting
Angry
Lustful
Outrageous
Allowed
Vicariously
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I wasn't one of those kids who was like, 'Get me to New York. Get me to a big city.' I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Always Me City
Big City
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I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
People
Roles
Trying
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I think plays deserve other interpretations. They should live on, and other people should should take their hand at them. I'm very supportive of that.
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Deserve
Supportive
Interpretations
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I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.
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Feels
People
Representing
Thinking
Women Myself I Am
Fair
Fair Amount
However
Interpret
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I was always much more shy. All I knew was that I loved to act. But I don't know about the other part of it. I'm not sure I had the chutzpah to go and prove yourself.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Not Sure
Prove
Proving Yourself
Shy
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Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.
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High School
Play
School
Cleared
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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.
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Cry
Feelings
Laughing
People
Great People Know
Great People Laugh
Great Feeling
Intoxicating
Laugh
Slit
Wonderful Thing
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I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.
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Actors
Character
Jessica
Thinking
Character Actor
Ingenue
Jessica Lange
Lady
Michelle
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I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Giving
Scene
Thinking
Tonight
Trying
Bar
Circumstance
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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 / Film Actress
Girl
Sad
Angry
Different Things
Good Girl
Long
Long Time
Outrageous
Perfect
Stage
Time Sad Good
Drew
Sad Time Good
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I think ties are great and Kathy Bates is an actress whose work I've admired tremendously over many years, and I feel a certain kinship with her, we both came from an extensive theater background.
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Thinking
Ties
Years
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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.
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Break
One Day
Psychotic
Cuckoo
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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. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.
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Opportunity
Might
Profession
Thinking
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I think there's been a tendency to place me in what has been characterised as the 'moral centre' of the film. In films like 'The Ice Storm' and 'The Crucible' and 'Nixon,' that's the sort of the persona that emerged.
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Centre
Crucible
Ice
Persona
Storm
Emerged
Nixon
Tendency
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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.
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Airplane
Risk
Jump
Parachute
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How do we escape who we are? I think, going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn't known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Expansion
Nerdy
Slate
Studious
Life Time My Life
Escape
Freer
Little Town
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I don't get tons of scripts to be looking at and deciding on in terms of feature films; the industry has changed. Fortunately, with television and streaming and original series online, there's this whole new thing that has opened up, which I think is fantastic.
Joan Allen / Film Actress
Changed
Fantastic
Online
Scripts
Series
Streaming
Television
Original
Deciding
Feature
Feature Films
Fortunately
New Thing
Opened
Terms
Tons
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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?
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Independent Film
Stretch
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I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing facility in my little hometown area of northern Illinois, so I got to see a lot of other patients there in various stages of the disease. I had a firsthand exposure to it in a pretty big way.
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Dementia
Disease
Exposure
Facility
Hometown
Illinois
Nursing
Area
Big Way
Life Way See
Firsthand
Northern
Patients
Stages
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When I read something, first I have an instinctual, emotional response to it. But of course, acting isn't only just feeling an instinct for what's going on in the moment with the character. You have to be able to carve it out and consider, follow, and create the whole journey that the character you play is going through.
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Instinct
Response
Carve
Instinctual
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