"One director said I just wasn't sexy. It was hard, really hard. I left town for two months with my tail between my legs. But you have to kind of go, okay, maybe I'm not their idea of [sexy], but hell, I can have sex!"
- Catherine Keener, on her harshest rejection
Credit: Jim Spellman
Updated: May 12, 2009 | 18:35:50 EST
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