When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it’s when I point, and I go, ‘Look what she did! She did the funniest thing – look at her!’ Where I can really separate back from it and I don’t see me anymore, then I’m really excited. That’s, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me. Dinah Manoff Read Quote
My mother is a hardcore actor’s actor. She’s not a celebrity. She really isn’t… And so her main concern was that I not fall into the auditioning-is-my-life syndrome. Dinah Manoff Read Quote
I’d grown up in a production company, but discovering the importance of the work, I realized I had something to bring here. Dinah Manoff Read Quote
I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years – not knowing what you’re going to do. Dinah Manoff Read Quote
Mother was so good that I was defeated even before I started to be an actress. I thought I could never make it unless I spent years in the Actors Studios, went on the blacklist and lived in New York, as she did. Dinah Manoff Read Quote