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Joey Lauren Adams [1971-0] American
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Actress


Joey Lauren Adams is an American actress and director who has appeared in more than 40 films. She appeared in Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films, particularly Mallrats and Chasing Amy, receiving a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for the latter.

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I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make me laugh, come make me cry... just make me feel alive.
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I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.
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Definition of an independent film is torture with less money and time.
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I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.
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I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.
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My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship.
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No one was jumping up and saying, 'Yeah, let me give you money.' I had never held a camera in my hand - a home video camera, nothing. I had not directed.
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There were days that I literally had no reason to get out of bed. It just was so destructive for me.
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It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.
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For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts.
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'Chasing Amy' was an amazing role, but then after that, I went and did 'Big Daddy' and you're the girlfriend or you're the best friend. I wasn't getting the Nicole Kidman roles.
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A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct. Diet
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My relationship with my father is pretty non-existent.
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The last person they expected to connect with a screenplay was the comedic, blonde actress with the funny voice.
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I was born and raised in North Little Rock, Arkansas. I was 15 when I got my first job serving food to the residents in a retirement home - 22 years later I would shoot my first film in one.
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
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I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.
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It's not like you can wake up and realize, 'Oh, I want intimacy,' and then it happens that day.
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I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.
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