13 Quotes by Jean Louisa Kelly


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    My character in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' was kind of coming of age, learning about a world that was opening up to her.

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    My family moved from Massachusetts to Maryland after my sophomore year of high school, and that's when I got the audition for 'Uncle Buck.' I took the train into New York, and I think I did the test with John Candy. Then I got the part, and it was my first movie and my first screen anything.

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    John Candy gave me a Hard Rock Cafe jacket, which was awesome because I was really from a very rural, small town, and it seemed so exciting to me. I think my mom still has that jacket.

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    You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

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    In TV, it is important to get everything on film as fast as possible. You rehearse every day of the week, and each day, the performance may be changed. The process is more result-oriented than in the movies. It's more about working quickly.

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    I always sang around the house. My brother and I would sing songs like 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' and stuff like that.

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