“I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.”

— Alicia Witt

On moving to Hollywood at 14, after having earned her high school equivalency diploma, as quoted in "Genius at Work" in People magazine, Vol. 43 No. 9 (6 March 1995)

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