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    Amy Adams' 'Enchanted' journey to 'Miss Pettigrew'
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    Adams now feels differently about that gray-sky time in her life. "I have to say that all that auditioning made me a better actress. I learned the kind of dedication it takes to prepare an entire character three different times each week. It's great practice for being busy. And, God knows" she says with a grin, "I've been pretty busy lately." Full Article at Newsday
    I have to say that all that auditioning made me a better actress. I learned the kind of dedication it takes to prepare an entire character three different times each week. It's great practice for being busy. And, God knows
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago
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Amy Adams' 'Enchanted' journey to 'Miss Pettigrew'
  1. and do more stage work and find other ways to fulfill myself and accomplish my goals because I realized I wasn't happy going to so many auditions.
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago
  2. The only way I was able to sort of get any kind of an honest reaction to 'Enchanted' was with this class of kids I was working with in 'Doubt.' [Adams plays a nun teaching in a mid-1960s New York parochial school.] And most of them knew me from playing Giselle in 'Enchanted,' and I was picking up their ...
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago
  3. The first day of this junket ... I'm out with my brother and sister-in-law, who are in town. And they're the ones who are looking around and noticing how people are responding to me in a different way. I honestly have no sense of this whatsoever and I don't know if it's because I have blinders on or not...
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago
  4. I had so many ... I don't want to say 'false starts' exactly. But before 'Junebug,' I'd done 'Catch Me If You Can' [the 2002 biopic of a con man played by Leonardo DiCaprio] and maybe I allowed myself to think that after working with Steven Spielberg things would get better. And they didn't. I don't kno...
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago
  5. I'd met Frances when we'd been nominated together that same year for the same Oscar ... I always knew she was a fantastic actress. But working with her, I got so much out of her work ethic, generosity and her sense of play. She spends most of the movie, especially the first part, reacting to all this wi...
    Amy Adams – Amy Adams SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago
  6. I tend to be attracted to pretty larger-than-life characters
    SOURCE: Newsday 21 months ago

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