Molly Shannon Quotes
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I have always loved both drama and comedy.
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I try to put my own history in my work.
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I want to do something I feel like I can do.
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Most comedians come from a dark past and have a lot of sadness.
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I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.
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Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.
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In real life, my son had a little injury a couple of years ago where we had moved into a new house and he put his hand through a glass window and it cut him really badly. Thank god he had surgery and repaired everything, but I remember I felt frozen I was so scared, and then I realized I was holding my hand just because his hand was hurt.
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I do make a conscious effort to not repeat old patterns, instead of being like, But they don't want me! I haven't always been that way.
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I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.
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I can't believe when you write something from within, how many people relate to it.
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When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.
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I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you don't, you're going to have problems. It's very important. It's also a gut instinct.
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People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.
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I'm healthy, I have beautiful children and a beautiful life. I don't want to go toward negative stuff because I'm scared.
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You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.
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I'm very driven by writing.
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I really love having lots of down time with my kids.
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The clothes, the shoes, the gold belts and the necklaces always click me into the character, for sure. You could not feel the character, and then you put on the shoes and get the walk.
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I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
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I feel like there is this resurgence of amazing roles for women. It's because TV is so good - there are amazing parts for women on TV, and it's upped the game in movies.
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In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.
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I went to drama school at New York University.
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If it's not happening, write your own thing!
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Marriage can be complicated.
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I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
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There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.
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I definitely have loads of respect for writers and the art of writing.
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I think people pick up on that. You use personal stuff and mix it all in - I definitely pull on that stuff in my acting.
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Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.
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I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
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