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" But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time. "
Time
Amazing
Most
" Every summer my husband and I pack our suitcases, load our kids into the car, and drive from tense, crowded New York City to my family's cottage in Maine. It's on an island, with stretches of sea and sandy beaches, rocky coasts, and pine trees. We barbecue, swim, lie around, and try to do nothing. "
New York
Lie
Family
" I do smaller films, I'm not getting big paydays. I feel like we're just kind of scraping together here. "
Together
Big
Feel
" I feel like I'm one of the happiest people I know. "
People
Feel
I Feel Like
" I get to play a lot of hysterics. "
Play
Get
Lot
" I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second. "
Children
Away
Me
" I have not spent years in therapy; I tried therapy in my mid-twenties, and it did not go very well. I just thought, 'This is so not for me. I would rather talk to one of my girlfriends.' I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. I have young children, and I'm just pretty much crazed. "
Children
Thought
My Life
" I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time. "
Nail
Time
Salon
" I just love to make a whole roomful of people laugh. "
Just
Laugh
Make
" I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film. "
Film
Enjoy
Doing
" I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. "
Love
Me
Perspective
" I'm a New Yorker, and I rarely get to work at home. "
Work
Get
Home
" I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much. "
Too Much
Point
Life
" I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child. "
Really
Child
Now
" I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl. "
Dreary
Suicidal
Girl
" I'm way too disorganized. "
Disorganized
Too
Way
" I travel all the time, and I have two small children. "
Travel
Two
Time
" It's too easy to sum up a person's character in one negative instant, and it doesn't put anything good out into the world. "
Character
World
Negative
" I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything. "
Gone
Me
Choose
" I've seen a lot of the United States, having stayed in so many different cities and towns for work. "
Work
Different
Seen
" I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that'll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they're at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, 'Oh, my God, you're at the top.' Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith. "
Faith
Stars
Work
" I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat. "
Heartbeat
Again
About
" Storytelling is what lights my fire. "
Fire
Lights
Storytelling
" The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs. "
Hard
Run
Jobs
" The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself. "
Treat
Look
You
" There's nothing I love more than a good cry. "
Than
More
Love
" The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny. "
Interesting
Work
Stand
" To play Hillary Clinton? I'm kind of winging it. No, are you kidding me? I prepared obsessively. I mean, as much as I could in the time that I was given. Of course, with someone like Hillary Clinton, obviously, anything you want is on YouTube and at your fingertips there. "
Time
Kind
Me
" When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt. "
Drop
Shirt
Iron
" You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line. "
Feel
People
Know
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