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" Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. "

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" Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. "

" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "

" Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.' "

" Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support. "

" I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world. "

" Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. "

" I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there. "

" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "

" If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. "

" I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part. "

" People often expect me to be something other than what I am. "

" I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me. "

" I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "

" I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors. "

" Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world. "

" I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. "

" I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at. "

" To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter. "

" That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. "

" An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes. "

" To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it. "

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" The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. "

" I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back. "

" I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. "

" I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in. "

" Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film. "