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" Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer. "

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" When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that. "

" Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no. "

" I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting. "

" My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you. "

" More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation. "

" I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in. "

" I've never directed, but it must be humbling. "

" I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in. "

" There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character. "

" I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction. "

" Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage. "

" In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing. "

" After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC. "

" Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director. "

" I don't offer advice to actors only because I've seen actors become successful through ways that would never even occur to me or that wouldn't work for me. But this has worked for me: Never memorizing a scene. "

" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want. "

" What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith? "

" I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient. "

" I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "

" Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one. "

" I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so. "

" I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress. "

" My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies. "

" Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something. "

" The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects. "

" As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know. "

" It is difficult to love people; even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it. "

" Am I going to go to Heaven or Hell when I die? No. Is there going to be a second coming, and people are going to be stricken down? I find all that exclusionary. "

" What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts. "