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• Transamerica has been a dream come true becuase I knew that it was a great acting challenge and I was scared to death every day we shot.
• As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.
• A win for one is a win for all -- and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
• And I thought some lucky actress will get to do it. But not me. Someone with clout.
• The hormones don't change your voice, so you can look like Kate Moss but sound like James Earl Jones.
• It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises.
• I'd call him and say, 'I don't know how to act this scene,' and he would tell me to fax it to him, ... Then he would walk me through it.
• We've been best friends for 20 years, and we've always had these big conversations that revolve around men. When you have children, you stop seeing your girlfriends as much, so this project was great.
• He feels great about it, and he loves the show and I have a job for the next couples of years, so he is like "You go honey, I am gonna garden.
• I think the first year was all a surprise and a shock for us. This year, having weathered that, we all went in knowing how to do it a little better.
• As my husband tells me, he's going to kill me and divorce me and then eat me if I work over the hiatus. He's ready for us to have some time together, and he's ready not to be Mr. Mom, anymore.
• We were riding so high that there's no place else to go but sort of down for a while, and God willing, up again. And I'd say everyone's entitled, of course, to their opinion. My experience has been the scripts have been great. I think it's been a wonderful year.
• I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.
• The only thing that I actually looked at differently was the effect of hormones and how that really changes your personality and who you think you are is actually a lot the makeup of hormones.
• She does love lavender because it's the color of transformation.
• It's the role of a lifetime. I would have begged, borrowed and stole just to have a shot at an audition for this movie.
• I think anyone who has been in the business longer than five or 10 years who didn't start out beautiful only has a 5% chance. So the odds are phenomenal and yes, I thought about giving up many times.
• I'm shot into the stratosphere. You can't pasteurize the Academy Award. You can't negotiate it. It is the top. It is the biggest thing ever. I've been hopping around and screaming all morning.
• What we are is colleagues. I got to know these women last year, and good friends you have for years and years. But I think we're developing friendships.
• When I am frightened I am a little bit fasty so there is times I say "Why!? Why do you want me to do that!? No! I am not gonna do that!
• I've turned into one of those actresses and I'm sorry.
• I've never been a beauty. It's not my thing. I mean, my face is fine, you know? So I really didn't have anything to lose or to risk.
• This part was an actor's wet dream. I loved doing it because it wasn't an issue movie. Sometimes in issue movies, you miss the truth of the human soul and the journey we go on.
• I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.
• It's a socially conscious film without being socially conscious.
• I saw that some people who were new into the feminine world weren't great at putting on makeup. So I decided that Bree wouldn't know the right base color and didn't know how to go pick up makeup at the store and is embarrassed about it anyway and doesn't like being out in public and hides most of the time. So those things dictated how I ended up looking.
• I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.
• And then it was a lot with the marketing of it and trying to get people to see it. He was the one who got Harvey (Weinstein) involved.
• I thought I had a good shot at all of them, except the Hispanic supermodel.
• He'd never shot a movie before in his life, so the learning curve for him was phenomenal. He didn't know a close-up from a two-shot. But what he did know, and was doggedly committed to, was this story.
• The only thing I remember going up onstage was my feet started sweating. I'm a runner. And my feet sweat.
• I would like to thank the incomparable William H. Macy for taking a chunky 22-year-old with a bad perm and glasses out into a cow pasture and kissing me and making me his wife.
• I never thought the show would be this huge. It's tough to even get a show on the air, let alone have people watch it week in and week out. We've really captured lightning in a bottle. This happens once in a gazillion Hollywood years.
• I love actors. I married one. OK, I married a fantastic one.
• The second time I didn't work for a year, I gave up any dream that looked like this. I want to thank Duncan Tucker for seeing me in an off-Broadway play and writing a beautiful movie that heals and brings understanding.
• I'm so happy I can make a living at (acting), because I was never very good at math.
Felicity Huffman Filmography
2008 - The Politician's Wife2008 - Phoebe in Wonderland
2007 - Georgia Rule
2005 - Transamerica
2004 - Christmas with the Kranks
2004 - Raising Helen
2004-Now - Desperate Housewives
2003 - House Hunting
1999 - Magnolia
1998-2000 - Sports Night
1997 - The Spanish Prisoner
1995 - Hackers
1993 - The X-Files
1991 - Golden Years
1990 - Reversal of Fortune
1988 - Things Change
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