Joey Lauren Adams
Joey Lauren Adams Trivia
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She did the voice of Emergency room nurse Keri Taker in the 1996 video game Emergency Room.
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She did a song for the soundtrack of the movie Sleep With Me.
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Her father was a lumberjack yard owner in her hometown Arkansas.
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The biggest influences for her movie Come Early Morning were Bruce Beresford's Tender Mercies and Urban Cowboy.
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Joey got her first job when she was 15, serving food to residents in a retirement home. Twenty-two years since, she shot her first film as a director (Come Early Morning) in a retirement home.
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She moved to Hollywood in 1988.
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She dated Vince Vaughn in 1998.
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Kevin Smith wrote the script to Chasing Amy inspired by his experience with then-girlfriend Joey Lauren Adams.
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She is often mistaken for Renée Zellweger.
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She was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in San Diego in 2003.
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She is 5'5" tall.
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She was nominated for Best Breakthrough Performance at the 1997 MTV Movie Awards for Chasing Amy.
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She filmed a scene for Wayne's World 2, but it was edited out.
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She and Carmen Lee were nominated for an MTV Movie Award for best kiss (Chasing Amy) in 1998.
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Her breakthrough role came in 1993 in Dazed and Confused.
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She was nominated for "Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical" at the 1997 Golden Globes Awards for Chasing Amy.
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Several directors have suggested she change her voice. It has been described as one-part Minnie Mouse and one-part Melanie Griffith.
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She was the one who wrote the song she sang in Chasing Amy.
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Her directorial debut is Come Early Morning and was released in 2006 at the Sundance Film Festival.
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In 1997, she won the Chicago Film Critics "Most Promising Actress" award for her role in Chasing Amy.
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She is a fan of country music.
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Joey Lauren Adams: (her definition of an independent film) Torture with less money and time.
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Joey Lauren Adams: (on directing her first movie, "Come Early Morning") I couldn't stand the idea of someone else interpreting the story, and I knew it wasn't the kind of script that someone would necessarily want to interpret. I wanted to get the movie made the way I saw it in myself, so necessity, you could say, forced me to direct.
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Joey Lauren Adams (on growing up in Arkansas): My life was exactly like Dazed and Confused.
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Joey Lauren Adams: Of course, it's very easy to be witty tomorrow, after you get a chance to do some research and rehearse your ad libs.
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Joey Lauren Adams: A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
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Joey Lauren Adams: For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts. If the guy in the movie is 30, they're going to take a 20-year-old to play opposite him.
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Joey Lauren Adams: A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
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Joey Lauren Adams: It's not a normal voice. It doesn't fit into people's preconceptions about what a woman's voice should sound like.
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