"Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting."

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Source : "DIVA TALK: Chatting with 'Three's Company' and Miss Abigail's Guide Star Joyce DeWitt". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. June 17, 2011.

Joyce DeWitt

#Growing Up Quotes #Play Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.”
“I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.”
“Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.”
“To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.”
“The long summer was over. For ages a tropical climate had prevailed over a great part of the earth, and animals whose home is now beneath the Equator roamed over the world from the far South to the very borders of the Arctics ... But their reign was over. A sudden intense winter, that was also to last for ages, fell upon our globe.”
“Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.”
“I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.”
“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”

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