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" As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York. "

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" When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, that's not interesting to me. "

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" The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together. "

" I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. "

" Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you. "

" I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important. "

" When you have children, you don't have downtime, but I have a family life that is rich and fulfiling. "

" Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people. "

" At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride. "

" My mother brought us to the library every week, and I read a lot. That's what kept me company. I went from school to school, but there was always reading. "

" I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable. "

" Art is an expression of who we are, what we believe, and what we dream about. "

" It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. "

" You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it. "

" I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared. "

" If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies! "

" In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. "

" In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it. "

" The kids go to a Quaker school. Their father and I believe a lot in community, social responsibility, making sure you give to people less fortunate than you. "

" When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.' "

" We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art. "

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" My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort. "

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" Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven. "

" My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me. "

" I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25. "

" I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community. "

" I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that. "

" I have a husband and two kids, and they're usually around when I'm shooting, then I go home. We have dinner, and that's what I'm dealing with when I go home. "

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