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Amanda Peet

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485 total appearances

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"Amanda Peet"

Yale undergrad, Harvard Law School.

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"Amanda Peet"

My mom was a social worker, psychotherapist.

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"Amanda Peet"

And I feel like they saw actingβ€”

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"Amanda Peet"

In the beginning, similarly to just, oh, so you want to start modeling.

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"Amanda Peet"

You want to join the circus.

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"Amanda Peet"

You want to be a hooker.

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"Amanda Peet"

Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

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"Amanda Peet"

Yes, I think I was constantly trying to make it appear less frivolous.

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"Amanda Peet"

But interestingly, apropos of what we were just saying, I think because I had terrible stage fright, it was much easier for me to book things like a Chapstick commercial or Days of Our Lives.

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"Amanda Peet"

Like as soon as I was lucky enough to get an audition for something like a Clifford Odette's play or something like that, I was like this.

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"Amanda Peet"

And I couldn't do what I was doing in class anymore.

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"Amanda Peet"

you know, in real life.

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"Amanda Peet"

I didn't explain that right.

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"Amanda Peet"

Anything highbrow, I was like terrified.

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"Amanda Peet"

And then anything that was like considered more lowbrow, I could kill it.