Rosemarie DeWitt Quotes

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Rosemarie DeWitt

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 26, 1974

There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can't ignore them, because it's not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they're lame.

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With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.

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I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'.

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In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology.

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I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy.

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There's nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child.

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Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign.

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The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives.

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I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.

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There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now where we think if, God forbid, you couldn't talk to someone, you would flip out - you know what I mean?

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I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

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There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you.

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A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and it's about making money. For me, the project that felt like all of it was 'Rachel Getting Married' because I had such a good time on that movie. Jonathan Demme, to me, is one of the most actor-friendly directors.

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Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.

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I'm astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their life to it, maybe go over to Syria, maybe lose their life. Then, the next day, it's a new story.

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I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.'

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You go to New York, and people say New Yorkers are so rude, and I think they're so nice. They might yell at you, but it's nice.

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I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn.

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Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

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I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house.

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