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Keri Russell, born on March 23, 1976, is an accomplished American actress. She gained widespread recognition for her performances in television series such as 'Lost' and 'American Crime Story', and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film 'Juno'.

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“Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.”

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“Everyone should dance more. Everyone should walk more.”

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“I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.”

Should Whole Crazy Denied Dessert I Am Crazy

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“I am literally the worst person at keeping secrets. I'd be the worst spy of all time.”

Persons Secret Worst All Time Spy Keeping Secrets Worst Person

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“I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.”

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“I don't have time for any special skin routines. Many a night I go to bed with the gloppy mascara and all.”

Night Special Bed Skins Mascara

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“I don't think I ate a green vegetable until I was 30. I didn't grow up with a mom who enforced that at all.”

Thinking Grows Growing Up Mom Green Vegetables

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“I know not every mom is a secret KGB spy, but every mom has this whole other life. Every dad and every person has this whole other life.”

Knows Persons Whole Secret Mom Dad Spy Kgb

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“I was a huge fan of 'Arrested Development,' and there's just something it tickles in me and it's bright and it's hilarious.”

Fans Huge Development Arrested

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“I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.”

Thinking Hard Work Out Food Love I Love Food

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“Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared.”

Real Scared Scary Wimps

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“Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.”

Ideas Hard Moving Fighting Knowing Hard Work Discipline Perfection Foundation Elusive Choreography

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“I like getting to be in the adult world a little bit and then getting to be in the mom world and cook dinners. And, for me, that balance is what makes it nice.”

World Littles Bits Nice Mom Balance Little Bit Adults Dinner Cooks

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“I stayed really physical during my pregnancy. I stuck to my normal pre-pregnancy workout, minus the stomach exercises and twisting. I really felt it helped my whole well-being.”

Wells Whole Felt Exercise Normal Stuck Well Being Pregnancy Stomach Workout Minus

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“Sex has never been something I've done in my career - at all.”

Done Sex Careers

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“I'm kind of a scaredy cat - I don't watch a ton of them. I mean, I started reaching this script at night and had to wait until the next morning to finish it so it would be light out. It really scared me. The scary movies I like are The Others and Pan's Labyrinth - they're so scary but they're about real things, and hopefully this is too.”

Kind Mean Real Light Would Be Night Next Waiting Watches Morning Cat Scripts Scared Scary Hopefully Reaching Real Things Labyrinth

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“The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.”

Knows Kind Lost Strong Parent Influence Hero Worship Faults Very Strong Hero Worship Misgivings Worship You

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“When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.”

World Alcohol Supposed To Be Mice Cool Things Skit

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“I think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.”

Thinking Different Character Stories Break Good Story

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“I think love is a great catalyst for many characters to further the story or their own growth.”

Thinking Character Stories Growth Love Is Catalyst

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“I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.”

Character Stories Adore Intriguing

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“Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time.”

Kind Use Able Imagination Seeing Focused Muscles Belly Stay Focused

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“Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.”

Knows Wonder Roles Growing Up Growing Models Role Models Definite Standing Out Nancy Amelia Wonder Woman Nancy Drew

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“There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.”

Looks Literature Roles News Models Female Role Models Shortage Female Roles Female Role Models

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“I wish I had an invisible plane to take me home to Brooklyn, and I wouldn't have to ride the subway.”

Home Wish Invisible Planes Take Me Brooklyn Subway

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“Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."”

Want Sometimes Answers

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“We all have some version of a fantasy that's easy to escape to, and we all want a real relationship where there's a common give-and-take and you're seen for who you are, and appreciated for that.”

Want Giving Real Easy Common Fantasy Who You Are Versions Appreciated Give And Take Real Relationship

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“Naps are the key to relieving stress. When you are working on two hours of sleep, the fact that cheese comes on something when you ordered it with no cheese is enough to send you crying under the covers for an hour.”

Two Enough Facts Hours Sleep Cry Keys Stress Cheese Naps Stress Relieving

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“When I was on the 'Mickey Mouse Club,' there was Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Ryan Gosling and Christine Aguilera. But they were 12 and I was 17, so there was a bit of an age difference.”

Age Bits Differences Clubs Mice Spears Justin Mickey Christine Age Difference

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“I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.”

Firsts Class Goes On Clothes Treats Fancy Pairs Heels High Heels First Class

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“While 'Felicity' was successful in the States, and I had opportunities to do other stuff, I didn't want to do anything to make myself more famous. I wasn't dealing well with the celebrity of all of that. I was 23 - just a kid - and not coming from money, it was all just too much. I just wanted to slow it down a little bit, and gain control.”

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“Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms and hold on tight, without an ounce of selfishness to it.”

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“People expect all women to react the same to pregnancy. But anyone who's been around pregnant women knows that it's not all cutesy and sweet. You spaz out and you're angry and you have tantrums.”

People Knows Sweet Angry Pregnancy Pregnant Pregnant Women Tantrums Spaz

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“I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you're not actually doing it. It's entertainment. You know that you're in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.”

People Thinking Knows Way Two House Hours Space Safe Safety Entertainment Scary Excited

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“Eating a cookie never feels strange. I am a big believer in food in general.”

Feels Bigs Strange Eating Believer Cookies

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“I was more intrigued by the relationship [in Felicity]; the idea of these two teenagers who were placed together. What would that be like, and what would it be like to watch that unravel. Living together, and having babies with somebody, missing out on your whole childhood, and then spending all these years with someone. I was more intrigued by that.”

Years Two Ideas Whole Together Watches Childhood Missing Baby Spending Teenager Intrigued Felicity Having A Baby Living Together Missing Out

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“I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.”

People Way Kind Children Two Matter Character Kids Parent Capable Smart Who You Are Teenager Vicious Undone Complication Where You Live

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“You're not insulting my character. Being a woman, especially in this business, it's so thrilling to get to do that. It's so rare, especially right now the way the film industry is. If you're a girl, the part you get to play these days...because there's so many less movies made...in a good movie, if there's a girl in it, there might be a handful of scenes, and your job is to be supportive to the guy who's messed up. Be the loving rock at home, or be the good mom, or be the attractive person.”

“You don't get to be the bad mom and still succeed at your job and be tough. It's such a good job because it's so rare. It's a really rare job.”

Stills Jobs Mom Succeed Tough Good Job Bad Mom

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“The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way.”

Way Needs Kind Film Watches Serious Scripts Waitress True Life

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“I just thought that Adrienne [Shelly] wrote a great character [for Waitress]. It really was all on the page.”

Character Pages Waitress Great Character

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“Adrienne [ Shelly] had 100 per cent control over this movie [ Waitress] as a director. She didn't just write it, direct it and act in it, she was the creative force behind everything, from the jokes down to the expressions.”

Writing Force Behinds Creative Expression Directors Jokes Direct Cents Waitress

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“[Adrienne Shelly] explain exactly what she was looking for. This was her movie [Waitress].She also wrote the songs that I sing in it. She wrote everything. She chose the colour of our outfits; she designed the set of the diner. She was very, very involved at every level.”

Song Levels Involved Colour Waitress Outfits Diners

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“I think it's quite common and realistic. There are many stories like this [in Waitress]. [Jenna, my character] marriage looks really horrible up on the screen but I think there are a lot of people in bad relationships who wake up and think to themselves: "Wow, how did I end up here? Why am I still here and so unhappy and not satisfied with my life?"”

People Thinking Looks Stills Ends Character Stories Common Wake Up Screens Unhappy Satisfied Horrible Realistic Wow Waitress Bad Relationship

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“We shot the movie [Waitress] in 20 days so there wasn't a lot of time to learn. There wasn't a lot of pie baking going on, at least not by me. But we always had pies while we were filming - we ate two different pies every day for lunch!”

Two Different Shots Lunch Pie Baking Waitress

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“I can make cookies and do easy stuff. Pies are very specific and hard to do well though.”

Wells I Can Hard Easy Stuff Pie Cookies

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“With a pie, the crust is a real delicacy. It's very hard to get it just right because it's got to be cold and just the right consistency. There's a whole art to it and I haven't learned how to do it [filming in Waitress].There's not a lot of time for cooking, especially when you're shooting nights or working until 11pm.”

Art Real Hard Whole Night Havens Cold Cooking Shooting Pie Consistency Delicacy Waitress

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“I tend to come home and eat a bowl of cereal. I'm not thinking about baking a pie when I'm off work.”

Thinking Home Coming Home Bowls Pie Baking Cereal

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“I love Cheryl [Hines] so much and had so much fun with her. Off set we got on so well and would tell stories.”

Wells Stories Fun

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“That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.”

Firsts Different Interesting First Time Fascinating Waitress Sundance

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About the Author

Born: March 23, 1976
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 74

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