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" Actually, the books were never a planned career path. "
Books
Career
Path
" All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good. "
Fame
Work
Money
" And I was ashamed of myself for feeling like I had to do that in order to look a certain way. I felt misshapen, just not natural anymore. And I think it was a big stimulator of my drug use. "
Look
Think
Myself
" Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. "
Actor
You
Books
" I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. "
Incredible
Getting Older
Think
" I attempted various types of plastic surgery, minutely but enough to stave off this encroaching middle-aged body. And every time I did, something went wrong. I felt misshapen, just not natural any more. "
Body
Wrong
Natural
" I believe that life is hard. That we all are going to walk through things that are hard and challenging, and yet advertising wants us to believe that it's all easy. "
Life
Life Is Hard
Walk
" I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it. "
Rhythm
Play
Know
" I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are. "
Beautiful
Think
You
" If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do. "
Think
Challenge
Aging
" If I were an actress today at the age of 18, I would never make it, because now our young actresses all seem to be very beautiful and very talented right away. "
Young
Today
Right
" I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had. "
Short
Cute
Hair
" I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me. "
Pretending
Performing
Me
" I'm a human being who lives a flawed, contradictory life. And I have all sorts of problems and all sorts of successes. "
Life
Problems
Who
" I never represented glam. That's the thing, you'll never see me in the front row of a fashion show. I'm uninterested in it. I find it trivial and banal and boring. "
Find
Fashion
Boring
" I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change. "
Change
Parents
Move On
" I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice. "
Why Not
Why
Up
" It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers. "
Procedure
Cosmetic
Had
" I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal. "
Normal
Being
Dream
" I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it. "
Plastic Surgery
Know
Had
" My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do. "
Life
Work
My Life
" The biggest lesson I've learned from my children is to look in the mirror at myself, not at them. I've realized that everything I've done has had an impact on them. We have to understand that they are like little paparazzi. They take our picture when we don't want them to and then they show it to us in their behavior. "
Children
Picture
Look
" The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. "
More
Me
Like
" The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing for me is to see them do anything that they're proud of. "
Children
Seeing
Me
" The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it. "
Sure
Forget
Hear
" With short hair you have to get a haircut every two or three weeks. And if you're coloring your hair, you have to color it that often. Every time I did it, I felt fraudulent. "
Short
Time
You
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