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It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

- Allison Janney

Start, Been, Great Way, Thrilling

The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.

- Allison Janney

Myself, Sometimes, Like, Allison

I definitely paid my dues, and I'm grateful for everything and for my good friends.

- Allison Janney

Grateful, Good Friends, Dues

I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!

- Allison Janney

Like, Still, Half, None

I was a late bloomer in a lot of areas in life.

- Allison Janney

Late, Late Bloomer, Lot, Bloomer

I go on a hunt for things that make sense to me and that I can actively play as an actress.

- Allison Janney

Play, Actress, Hunt, Actively

I've never been with a group of people for that long. I mean, even my family I don't think I know as intimately as the people I worked with on 'West Wing.'

- Allison Janney

People, Think, Been, West Wing

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

- Allison Janney

Call, Most, Republicans, Left Wing

Birthdays are getting harder as I get older.

- Allison Janney

Older, Get, Getting, Birthdays

I did Alan Ball's 'Five Women Wearing the Same Dress,' and then he put me in 'American Beauty.' Everything started to happen from all the years I put into the theater in New York City, and working, and having great parents who supported me through that.

- Allison Janney

Beauty, Dress, Through, Alan

I'm one of those actors who fall into the camp of never wanting to look at themselves on camera ever, thank you very much. I do not and will not, because I am my worst critic.

- Allison Janney

Wanting, Critic, Very, Camp

I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.

- Allison Janney

Love, Play, More, Outlandish

The fact that 'Mom' is not joke, joke, joke - and is investing in these characters and their lives, things that really happen to people - I think it's resonating, and that's why people are tuning into it and not just dismissing it as a multi-cam sitcom.

- Allison Janney

Fact, I Think, Resonating, Investing

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

- Allison Janney

Big, Some, Delicate, Way Home

My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.

- Allison Janney

Yard, Which, Musical, Oils

As a teenager, I played men in my first two plays.

- Allison Janney

Men, Played, Plays, Teenager

'Talullah' is a movie I'm really proud of. Sian Heder is the director/writer, and I think she's extraordinarily talented. I think it was a beautiful story.

- Allison Janney

Proud, Think, I Think, Extraordinarily

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

- Allison Janney

Politics, About, Discussions, Table

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

- Allison Janney

Good, Nothing, About, Drawback

Someone said I wasn't attractive enough. People say those things, but they make you stronger. Then you can win an Emmy and think, ha, ha, ha.

- Allison Janney

Think, Say, Attractive, Emmy

The first job where I actually made money was on 'Guiding Light,' the soap opera. And I played a maid. My name was Ginger, and I had a Brooklyn accent - a really bad one, if I remember correctly.

- Allison Janney

Opera, Bad, I Remember, Ginger

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

- Allison Janney

Doing, New, Lot, Trenches

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

- Allison Janney

Drama, Better, Than, Conflict

It's a beautiful feeling to be out on the ice, breathing in the cold air and hearing the blades hit the ice. It's kind of romantic.

- Allison Janney

Kind, Breathing, Ice, Hearing

I love arts and crafts.

- Allison Janney

Love, Arts, I Love, Crafts

If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.

- Allison Janney

Could, Involves, Which, Vet

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

- Allison Janney

I Am, Lucky, Say, Aaron

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

- Allison Janney

Men, Tell, Threatened, Height

I felt like my career started late, and I think it was because of my height - and maybe some of my confidence issues.

- Allison Janney

Career, Think, Some, Height

My height does help me. I can hide a multitude of sins in my height.

- Allison Janney

Help, Hide, Multitude, Height

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