I think it's so timely for right now. 'Mockingbird' came at a perfect time for our country. It allowed us the ability to discuss subjects rationally and intelligently without getting way up here, and now that things are way up here with our country, I think this will help a lot.

Mary Badham

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You have to put your mindset in that time period, and you have to understand what we lived through, when you read the book, you’ll get it.

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It has all of life's lessons condensed into one little, simple book, it's impacted my life in a growth process to accept the world and be tolerant of people and other ways of thinking and other ways of doing things.

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In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good... by Mary Badham

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

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I was very much a tomboy. I've always been rather outspoken, headstrong, and I'm pretty much that way to this day.

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Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.

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I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

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If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot better off.

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When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.

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I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

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I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor. by Mary Badham

I wasn't a child who wanted to be an actor.

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I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.

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That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have... by Mary Badham

That's so important for children when they're growing up, to have a strong male role model.

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My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Al... by Mary Badham

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

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