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But before her "Junebug" breakthrough, she concedes to feeling in, at best, a professional holding pattern. "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 know why. Maybe I was too nervous, too much pressure." After a succession of TV appearances, she even considered relocating from Los Angeles to New York "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." Full Article at Newsday
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 know why. Maybe I was too nervous, too much pressure.
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Amy Adams' 'Enchanted' journey to 'Miss Pettigrew'
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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.
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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 ...
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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...
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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
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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...
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I tend to be attracted to pretty larger-than-life characters
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