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I've learned that a regular yoga practice is essential.

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Practice, Yoga, Learned, Essential

I'd been a fan of old film comedies like Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks movies - the fast-paced dialogue in movies like 'His Girl Friday' and 'Bringing Up Baby' and 'Twentieth Century' and 'Sullivan's Travels.'

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Been, Twentieth Century, Fast-Paced

More people come up to me and talk to me about 'Gilmore Girls' than anything else I've done, including 'Guardians.'

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Including, Gilmore Girls, Guardians

'Gilmore Girls' and the first 'Guardians' were the two most substantial jobs of my career.

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Career, Most, Gilmore Girls, Guardians

A 'Guardians' sequel and a 'Gilmore Girls' reboot right at the same time was really awesome.

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Awesome, Same, Gilmore Girls, Guardians

So long as I can remember, my siblings and I would have 'Star Wars' action figures or Fisher-Price action figures, and we would build these sprawling compounds.

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Star, Figures, Star Wars, Compounds

I didn't quite understand for a little while just how loyal and rabid that fan base is for 'Gilmore Girls' until I started to get out there and see people all over the country.

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Country, Out, While, Base

I'm the youngest of six. When you're in a big family, you get put to the test right away. Do I like being the center of attention? Or do I not like it? You have to make that decision a lot growing up. I knew from a very young age that I liked it.

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Big, Away, Very, Right Away

I was on 'Gilmore Girls' for seven years and had a couple decent years after that. Then, two years of almost nothing. I had jobs here and there, but I got very, very scared.

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Here, Very, Couple, Scared

It's weird to see the parallel between 'Gilmore Girls' and a lot of the Comic-Con-type, sci-fi-fantasy fans. In a weird way, even though 'Gilmore Girls' is not in that genre, the way the fandom conducts itself and has created this community is similar.

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Similar, Gilmore Girls, Weird Way

My 'Pearl Harbor' story is that I've never seen it, and I suspect that I was cut completely from the movie, but my name is fairly high in the credits at the end. So, anybody that's ever said that they saw me in Pearl Harbor, I think they just saw the list of credits at the end of the movie.

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Movie, I Think, Cut, Credits

As I got older, I went to school. I started doing plays, I learned about the craft of acting, and I started to love acting for different reasons. I think I started to love acting because it brought me closer to people and made me more compassionate.

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Love, Doing, I Think, Compassionate

I will always hold a very special place in my heart for 'Gilmore Girls.'

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Always, Very, Gilmore Girls, Special Place

I think the idea that the community you live in is an extension of your family is a really nice thing for people to think about and to wish for in their own lives.

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Think, I Think, Extension, Nice Thing

I don't want to sound like I'm bragging, but I'm very proud of this: I moved to L.A. in October of 1997, but I never had a survival job in L.A. I was able to support myself with acting from the moment I got to town.

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Sound, Very, Moved, October

When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.

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Like, Going, Felt, Chicago

I went to the theater school at DePaul University in Chicago, the Goodman School.

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School, University, Theater, Chicago

I think that when I was first starting out, even after I was on 'Gilmore Girls,' when things were going pretty well, I was constantly focused on what's next, how can my career get bigger? I could've had a little more fun, and I think I could've had a little more gratitude for the job I did have.

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Career, Next, I Think, Gilmore Girls

I love Mike Winters. He's such a great actor.

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Love, Actor, I Love, Winters

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

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Happen, Set, Particularly, Hopes

I adore Kelly Bishop as a human being and as an actress.

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Human Being, Actress, Bishop, Kelly

I'd always rather be a jerk than a loser.

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Always, Rather, Jerk, Loser

Take care of yourself and have your body be in the right shape to do your job is part of my job.

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Shape, Part, Take, Your Body

If you decide to move to L.A. like, 'I'm just gonna see if it works, and if nothing works I'm gonna go back in a year, two years' - very, very few people with that attitude are successful. You need to make a commitment to this and say, 'This is who I am, and this is what I do.'

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Year, Very, Works, Few People

Everybody can relate to that feeling that, 'I'm having one of those days where I'm not doing anything right.'

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Doing, Everybody, Having, Relate

It was a very creative atmosphere in my family, for sure.

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Family, Sure, Very, Atmosphere

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