Alexis Bledel Quotes

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Alexis Bledel

Profession : Actress

Birth : September 16, 1981

'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.

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It gets kinda monotonous, but that's television. There are plus sides and down sides. The positive side is that you have steady work for nine months of the year for however many years your show is on TV,.

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Nearly a decade of time is enough for everybody to change, quite a bit.

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A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

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My perspective is that, when you're a kid, if your audience is a group of children or teenagers, you do have some level of social responsibility. I feel that.

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For some unknown reason, bad-boys draw you in despite the fact that they are jerks.

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I figured out that I was interested in acting while at NYU.

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Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.

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I'm not a fan of watching myself on TV - it's just not relaxing. It's like if you hear your voice on a recording: it doesn't sound the same as when it comes out of your mouth.

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Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

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I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

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I think there's so much to play in adolescence; there's so many conflicting things happening and so many changes, and there's just a lot of good stuff to play there as an actor.

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I remember seeing the performance Samantha Morton did in 'Sweet and Low Down' where she didn't speak at all, and I loved it so much because she got to do so much work just by expressing herself in her body and her face. With expressions, it wasn't necessary to speak. I find that appealing.

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I like period pieces.

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Give me a hot drink, and I'm happy. Hot cider, hot chocolate, coffee... I like all winter beverages!

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I'm the kind of person who, if I like one song, will listen to all of the band's work before moving on to another group.

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Working on 'Mad Men' was an incredible experience. It was such an incredible show with beautiful writing and so much complexity.

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I tend to renovate properties when I'm not working.

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I was a film major.

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I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process.

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