Stress, love, people not understanding me, me not understanding people.
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Worrying about not being able to go back to sleep.
Intrusive thoughts and caffeine.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
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Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
I was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
Having breast cancer.
I was doing a photoshoot right after an awards show and I was talking about someone whose makeup I really didn’t like. I said: “She’s gorgeous, I don’t understand how a makeup artist could encourage that?” And the makeup artist on the photoshoot said: “I did her makeup.”
That you’re stronger than you think you are.
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