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

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" Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary. "

" I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person. "

" Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying. "

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

" 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 don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work. "

" Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day. "

" I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking. "

" 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. "

" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "

" I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city. "

" I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private. "

" Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

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

" I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. "

" After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit. "

" Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting. "

" I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress. "

" I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes. "

" 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. "

" I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it. "

" I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV. "

" You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with. "

" For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics. "

" I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it. "

" There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain. "

" This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know. "

" As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. "

" I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me. "