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" All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. "

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" I'm all over the place. "

" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "

" The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. "

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" I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject. "

" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "

" Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. "

" I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do. "

" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "

" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "

" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "

" I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words. "

" Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. "

" You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "

" Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. "

" Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you. "

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" I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. "

" I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. "