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I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. Stephen Hopkins

Birthday Me Waiting People Face Farm Wearing One-Night Had Masks Tent Were Walked Shooting Night

I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while. Stephen Hopkins

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise. Stephen Hopkins

There were no previews; we made the film we wanted to make. Stephen Hopkins

Made Preview Make Were Wanted Film

There's light and dark in all things, you know? Susan Kelechi Watson

You Dark Light All Things Know Things

You have to practice the life you want regardless of what the circumstances are. Susan Kelechi Watson

Life You Practice Circumstances Want Regardless

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character. Susan Kelechi Watson

Life Time Character You Sometimes Long Nothing Background Able Three-Dimensional Only Scenes Long Period Develop Over Like Couple Period Because Get Being Full Full Life Fully Portray

I'm the ultimate studier of comedy. I grew up in a very funny household. My dad is the king of one-liners; my brothers are great at telling stories, and my mom is funny without knowing it. Susan Kelechi Watson

Funny Mom Great Comedy King Telling One-Liners Brothers Knowing Household Without Ultimate Up Very Grew Stories Dad

It's a complicated dynamic sometimes, mothers and daughters. There's this thing of, like, 'This is a model of womanhood for you,' but yet we find so many reasons why we don't want to be like our mother. Susan Kelechi Watson

You Complicated Sometimes Mother Our Find Daughters Like Mothers Womanhood Model Want Dynamic Reasons Many Why Thing

There was no way to predict that 'This is Us' was going to be what it is, that it would really resonate with people. Susan Kelechi Watson

People Resonate Predict Way Would Going Us Really

There was a time when I just didn't have the opportunities, which meant going without things in my life - whether it was clothes, or food, or money - and living a really bare-bones life. Susan Kelechi Watson

Life Time Food Money Opportunities My Life Clothes Living Without Going Just Whether Which Really Meant Things

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes. Susan Kelechi Watson

Morning Every Minutes Between Pray Anywhere Meditate

I personally don't lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I'm very intimate with what I'm saying and why I'm saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play. Susan Kelechi Watson

I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I didn't have the right body for it, and I didn't like that and never felt like I could be a part of that dance structure. Susan Kelechi Watson

Life Dance My Life Structure Could Never Part Like Most Because Felt Ballet Left Trained Behind Body Right Thing Earliest

So many people want to be seen not just as a mom or a wife, but they want to be seen wholly. Susan Kelechi Watson

Mom People Wife Seen So Many People Just Want Many Wholly

As a kid, you're so at the mercy of the people around you, the people raising you, your environment. Susan Kelechi Watson

You People Mercy Kid Environment Around Your Raising

It's always really cool as an actor to have a character that people want to see the best for. Susan Kelechi Watson

Best Character People See Always Want Really Cool Actor

I actually worked with an organization called Drama Club that works with incarcerated teens and youth in a detention center and in Rikers Island, which a lot of people don't know that teens have been incarcerated in Rikers Island. Susan Kelechi Watson

Youth People Organization Club Drama Teens Detention Know Island Been Lot Center Which Worked Works Actually

I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album. Tessanne Chin

Dreams Think Dream True Come Lot Selling Next Album

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine. Tessanne Chin

You Think Staying Part True Genuine Trying Being Successful Who

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