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>>Rosanna Arquette: I don't think I live my life like your average
Hollywood person. I mean, I know a lot of people that are
in Hollywood and there's friends of mine but I
I don't feel like, I mean, I feel kind of like a misfit
and I don't think that's my territory, you know I
I live in the hills in a very, very modest house
and I don't have a pool or a tennis court
and uh and I, I
my money goes, most of it to the government [laughs]
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>>Narration: As much as she may downplay her success
Rosanna is more than just another hard-working taxpayer.
Her star has shone brighter with each successive movie role
in Baby It's You, The Executioner's Song
Desperately Seeking Susan, and now, After Hours.
[film clip] I feel so excited, I don't know why. I feel it!
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>>Narration: Her modest approach to materialism probably comes
from being the child of 60s social activists.
Now she's revisiting those times with her involvement
in the upcoming anti-nuclear Great Peace March.
She is also a child of the theater.
Charlie Weaver was her grandfather.
Talk about combining two different worlds
>>Q: Am I dreaming this or did your mother once print
something across your chest when you were little?
>>Arquette: Stop the war, kill no more, naked, when I was six
[laughter] You remember that?
Yeah, I do remember. I remember it a lot
because I remember screaming it, yelling it
stop the war, kill no more
and I remember being in the back of a truck
and people looking at that and it's
>>Can you do anything halfway?
>>Yes, I can and I don't like that about myself
I really try, I'm really trying to
finish the job, you know what I mean?
>>But even an acting role, I imagine you just
>>Acting wise? >>Yeah, you put everything in it
>>I like to think I do. Sometimes I, I feel like I do
but sometimes I'll look at it and go, I didn't, you know
I don't ever feel really satisfied with my work.
>>Take a particularly movie, Baby It's You, in which I think
I thought you were extraordinarily good. >>Thanks
>>Now if you were reviewing your performance
you wouldn't say the same thing.
>>There are parts of Baby It's You from my performance
that I would change now, you know, I'd do differently
um you know, it's funny, the only
uh After Hours, which is um
the movie that's out right now is
was probably, was the greatest experience of my life
and it was the first time I was ever to be able to sit
in a movie theater and and look at myself and go
and not see a lot of me in it, you know
I'm very different from the person that I'm playing
and that was, and I, I could watch myself and
because I trusted my director so much
it was the first time I went
And I thought I'm, I'm okay, you know, it wasn't like
usually I go, oh God I'm terrible, my hair [indistinct]
>>That's what I hear, that you're in pain usually when you
see a screening of your own film, your own work.
>>I, it's hard. I don't know. It's really hard
I'm trying to get over that now because with this movie
with Jeff Bridges, you know, we go and see the
dailies of what we shot the day before the next day and
I'm just, they probably don't even want me to go anymore
because I'm just like, oh I'm, I look so ugly, I'm terrible I, I
you know some people can learn from it, I guess
I have a hard time and I have to get past that
>>Do you think you're pretty up on the screen when you see yourself?
>>Mm, people get really mad at me. I'm really getting attacked with [indistinct]
quit putting yourself down in front of everybody, it's really
>>Stop it, stop it. >>They say that to me and I
I have, I just, I mean, no I don't
I wouldn't say I'm pretty. I have a different look.
I'm some, I mean, I don't necessarily think I am I
you know, I don't, I don't think I'm ugly
but I think I'm okay. I'm alright >>Yeah but you...
>>I mean there's no, I don't think there's such thing as ugly and pretty
I mean everybody has their thing inside so
>>Now, tell me something, as life and career go along here
is it all kind of rolling along just the way you would want it
or are you constantly surprised by what happens to you?
>>I'm constantly surprised about what happens to me.
I uh, I mean, I live my life pretty much one day at a time
and it's always full of surprises.
>>What would you like if you could have
everything that you could want?
What would, what would be in that?
>>What would I like? >>Yeah
>>I would like nuclear disarmament. [laughs]
That's what I would like.
If I could have anything I wanted in the world
that's really what I would like.
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