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" All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. "

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" Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it. "

" Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word. "

" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "

" I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.' "

" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "

" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "

" We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. "

" I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. "

" I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion. "

" When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. "

" People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different. "

" People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. "

" I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. "

" The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. "

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

" Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor. "

" I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. "

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

" Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love. "

" If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. "

" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "

" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "

" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "

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

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

" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "

" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "

" The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become. "

" I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor. "