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" Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not. "
Good
Stuff
Feel
" And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett. "
Want
You
Mother
" At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes. "
Had
Pairs
Point
" But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973. "
I Can
New York
New
" But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny. "
Being
Never
Myself
" First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people. "
Two
Relationship
Motherhood
" I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke. "
Heart
Men
Born
" I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might. "
Think
Play
Compassion
" I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too! "
Dress
Awards
Clothes
" If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one. "
Thought
Shark
Ocean
" I have always loathed working out. "
Out
Working
Always
" I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point. "
Work
Thought
Mean
" I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it. "
Then
Walking
Hill
" I'm not a huge fan of my work. "
Huge Fan
Work
Fan
" I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie. "
Makeup
Quite
Ready
" It's kind of fun to be sexy. "
Fun
Sexy
Kind
" It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying. "
Time
Life
Child
" I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life. "
Nine
Been
Days
" I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community. "
Family
New York
New
" I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child. "
Brilliant
Child
Most
" Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work. "
Intense
Work
Powerful
" People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show. "
Early
You
People
" Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this. "
Say
Time
Life
" Shopping turns me off. "
Turns
Me
Off
" Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something. "
Feel
I Feel
Tame
" The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen. "
Painful
Listen
You
" Well, I don't find glamour and clothing relevant. "
Well
Relevant
Glamour
" Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link. "
Feelings
Strong
Think
" Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life. "
Life
Will
Tell
" Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal. "
Yes
Guess
Am
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