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" And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. "
People
Laughter
Abyss
" As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it. "
Fix
Face
Look
" 'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part. "
Because
Never
Me
" Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games. "
People
You
Way
" Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder. "
Amazing
Beautiful
Song
" 'Howard The Duck' has a lot of fans, and usually when they come up to me, I just think they're the coolest. Because it takes a lot of strength, a lot of perseverance to love 'Howard the Duck.' "
Think
Perseverance
Love
" 'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops. "
Child
Ups And Downs
People
" I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young. "
Know
Young
Best
" I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people. "
System
Different
Class
" I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf. "
About
New
Learning
" I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor. "
Ballet
Live
Never
" I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different. "
People
Different
Hate
" I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me. "
Positive
Faith
Day
" I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them. "
Love
Ride
Think
" I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet. "
Try
Always
Done
" I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out. "
Out
Work Out
Shape
" I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up. "
Growing
Up
Played
" In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic. "
Always
Deepest
Sarcastic
" I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online. "
Lot
Online
Brother
" I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children. "
Love
Hard
Children
" It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business. "
Me
Hard
Shocking
" It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years. "
Work
Years
You
" I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing. "
Fan
Want
Just
" My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better. "
Better
Happy
Sad
" My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them. "
Done
Get
Me
" Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative. "
You
Creative
Learning
" One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was. "
Looking
Time
Old Friends
" One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! "
Right
Only
Desire
" 'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns. "
Fun
Red
Riding
" Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job. "
Short
Acting
Profession
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