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Carrie Preston
Carrie Preston
American Actress
Born: Jun 21, 1967
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I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension. Carrie Preston
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I have a great amount of respect for what a manicurist does - now, when I go and get my own nails done at a nail salon, I have a lot of respect for what they're doing. Especially any kind of intricate work that they're doing is... it's a real art form. Carrie Preston
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Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person. Carrie Preston
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When you're doing a play that's fully produced, you have the benefit of rehearsing for four or five weeks, so you really get to live in the skin of the character for much longer than when you first start doing a character on TV. Carrie Preston
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'Emeril' came on the air right when a new president of NBC was taking over, and there was just a big shift going on. And then 9/11 happened, and that really pretty much killed it, because the show was already having a hard time finding an audience. I don't regret it. I had a really good time. Carrie Preston
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I like being able to marry the actor and the technician inside of me. It's really fulfilling. It exercises all of my creative muscles. Carrie Preston
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Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it. Carrie Preston
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Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting. Carrie Preston
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Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around. Carrie Preston
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'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up. Carrie Preston
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The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny. Carrie Preston
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I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.' Carrie Preston
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I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts, not just my own, and I always memorized everyone's blocking. Whenever anyone wasn't there, I would always jump in. I was very hands-on. Carrie Preston
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By the time I was twelve, I had started my own theater company and was doing plays in the backyard and the front yard and all over the neighborhood, so, you know, I was definitely a lifer even back when I was 10. Carrie Preston
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I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform. Carrie Preston
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Although I have been doing plays since I was 8 years old, it was only when I started doing Shakespeare at age 19 at the Georgia Shakespeare Festival that I felt like my career started. Carrie Preston
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I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at Shakespeare in the Park in N.Y.C. That show transferred, so I got to make my Broadway debut doing 'The Tempest' with Patrick Stewart. Carrie Preston
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I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts. Carrie Preston
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Before I do episodes of 'The Good Wife,' I talk to the director and say, 'I'm trusting you to let me know if it's too much! I won't be offended.' So I put myself in their hands, and most of the time they let me do my thing, but sometimes they'll say, 'Let's try this.' Carrie Preston
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It's always fun to pass on what I've learned to the younger people. Carrie Preston
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Remain true to yourself while practicing this business of being an actor. And it is a business. Carrie Preston
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It's OK to cut your hair or color it because it makes you stand out and helps with your brand. Carrie Preston
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Nobody wants to be a bad parent. Carrie Preston
Bad Parent Nobody Wants
It's just hard for a multi-camera show: Either they hit big, or they don't. Carrie Preston
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I did a lot of multi-cam shows when I first started coming out to L.A. Carrie Preston
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I would love to be able to have a brain that just captures everything. Carrie Preston
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