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♪ (jazz music) ♪

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Growing up profoundly different from birth,
size-wise

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that I was on stage all the time.

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I mean I'd walk out of my house

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and people would look, and stare at me.

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I'd go to the grocery store or ride my bike

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an people would stare, come up and talk to me

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I could never be anonymous,

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so many people try to not be 
anonymous

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I had that, whether I wanted it or not

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the second I walked out of my house.

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So when I found the stage,

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it was the only time I could control people

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looking at me.

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And, how they felt about me.

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I couldn't control how they felt about me

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out at the grocery store.

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(male interviewer) How is that sometimes?

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It's really annoying.

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I've come to the realization that

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it's them, not me, that whole thing.

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And so I feel very comfortable with that.

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Whenever I do, you've been so kind to let

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me do a couple of workshops for

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Meet the Biz. I think what I try to

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express more than anything to other actors

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is, you have to know yourself. In and out.

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And know all the tricks you use to cover-up

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the things you're insecure about.

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Know those and really understand them,

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you may not always get underneath that,

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but you have to be so aware of yourself.

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I mean, I think a lot of people think of

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acting as playing somebody else, so I'm

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going to put on this facade and be

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somebody else. I feel like, you can't unless

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you really know yourself. All your flaws,

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and atributes.