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" Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer. "

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" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "

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" If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck. "

" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "

" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

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" I love being in my 40s. "

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" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "

" I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. "

" Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper. "

" My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. "

" At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that. "

" I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young. "

" I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. "

" You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those. "

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