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Gretchen Mol

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Film actress

Gretchen Mol is an American actress born on November 8, 1972. She gained popularity for her outstanding performances in various film and television projects, particularly during the 1990s and early 2000s. Mol is best known for her roles in 'The THING' (1998) and 'The Devil's Advocate' (1997).

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“Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.”

People Film Hopefully Good People Good Films

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“It's not like I have a master plan or anything.”

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“I think that's the best way to see things, especially this kind of play where there's no pyrotechnics, it's literally just people talking.”

People Thinking Kind People Talking

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“When I leave the theater I can always hear people talking about the character, and everyone always says, "You know, I know someone like her." And I always think, Everyone knows someone like the characters; nobody is like the character. Nobody wants to admit that they are a little bit like that.”

People Thinking Character People Talking

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“If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.”

Different Choices

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“It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.”

Character Fun Concern Sympathetic

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“The thing about being a parent it puts priorities in order. Thank God, you're not totally focused on yourself anymore. You get to put your energy out, as opposed to worrying all the time about your own stuff. It's such a relief, but when you think about it, it's like an extension of you. It's like a safer way; you feel less indulgent about it, but they are extensions of yourself, and I think you're freer to love them so unconditionally. That, we're not able to do with our own selves.”

Thinking Energy Parent Worry Focused Priorities Thank God Being A Parent

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“With the television thing you have this lull of time where you're not with the character. And when you get those first pages, you're like, "Who is she again? Huh? Where did we leave off?" Then you show up at the read-through and all of the sudden the voice is there, and you realize that the character is still stewing in you all that time, even in the downtime.”

Character Realizing

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“The process with the play, obviously, it belongs to you by the time you're stepping on stage in front of that audience for the first time. You can change it by just a look or things you're not even conscious of, but it's such a full immersion.”

Audience Conscious First Time

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“In a way I'd say it's maybe more satisfying to do a play, because there is a beginning, middle, and end. But I also really enjoy the television experience, because there's a certain part of it that you have to let go of and trust in that process.”

Enjoy Letting Go

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“You can kind of ask around for details. You might get a little information here and there, even from the other actors, or "One person heard that..." I feel like the writers are always leaving their options open.”

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“The first people that have the information are the hair and makeup ladies and the wardrobe people, because they often have to plan out the clothes: the things that are gonna get bloody, and the different kinds of gunshot wounds they're gonna have to do. They often have more of a preparation, more time, than we do. You can definitely feel on set the actors trying to get that information, and they're of sworn to secrecy.”

People Trying Kind Different Wounds Preparation Makeup Different Kinds Bloody Secrecy Wardrobe

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“It's hard to know really how it's going to happen, but the career ebbs and flows and now there's a nicer feeling of interest than there has been at other times.”

Knows Has Beens Hard Feelings Happens Interest Careers Flow Hard Times Ebb And Flow

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“Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion.”

Made Hard Energy Opinion Made It

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“I'm pretty low-maintenance, but I like my time to myself, and once you have a child, you have to fight for it. I remember the first long bath I took [after Ptolemy's birth] was such a moment. Because a lot of the time you're in the shower, and if that baby cries, you've got to turn off the water and go!”

Ifs Firsts Children Long Moments Remember Turns Fighting Water Cry Baby Birth Lows My Time Showers Baths Maintenance Turn Off

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“I think it's sort of disrespectful to the partner you're having sex with to talk about it.”

Thinking Sex Partners Having Sex Disrespectful

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“I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.”

Thinking School High School Theater Musical Curriculum Getting High Musical Theater

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“The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.”

Littles Interesting Mystery Pages Interesting Things

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“I focused on where she was from of course, her voice and her history, her relationship with God - her religion. This was probably the strongest relationship she has had, really. She never seemed to maintain close relationships with husbands.”

Courses Voice Relationship Husband Focused Strongest Relationship With God Close Relationship

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“People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.”

People Thinking Way Trying Looks Able Needed Pages Feminist Permission

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Born: November 8, 1972
Known for: Film actress
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