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I was playing 40-year-old women when I was 20. I didn't get considered for ingenue roles. Allison Janney

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I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me. Anna Chancellor

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I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds. Charlotte Rae

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I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith. Hope Davis

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I suppose that there might have been leading men who were put off from casting me as the ingenue because I was taller than they were, but I've no idea that this ever happened. When I did 'Much Ado About Nothing' opposite Mark Rylance in the West End, we used the difference in our heights as part of their relationship. Janet McTeer

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I was never an ingenue. I've always just been a character actor. When I was younger, it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough. It was hard, not just for the lack of work, but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you. Kathy Bates

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I never played an ingenue. LaTanya Richardson

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I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be. Lea Salonga

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I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. Melissa McCarthy

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Ageism is interesting for me because I've been playing someone in my 40s since I was 20 or so, but I have experienced it. I've been lucky in that I haven't had to play the ingenue and feel that slip away. Miriam Shor

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I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue. Rosemarie DeWitt

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My early acting was ingenue stuff. Sarita Choudhury

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Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair. Susie Orbach

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I spend a lot of time at my son's school and I really wanted to do a movie that the kids could see. The good thing about being my age and not having to be the ingenue anymore is that I get to be a mom. I get to have kids in my movies. Virginia Madsen

Part of me feels like when you had a lot of success in your teens and 20s, it gets harder for you in your 30s because people are so attached to you as this ingenue. So even though you're older, they still think of you as that girl - that waifish young girl. And so it was sort of like a struggle. Winona Ryder

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I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. Kelli O'Hara

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