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" Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. "

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" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "

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" I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. "

" The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "

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" You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. "

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

" I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. "

" Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. "

" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "

" Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. "

" Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. "

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

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

" The work will stand, no matter what. "

" 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. "

" Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. "

" 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. "

" You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try. "

" How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. "

" I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. "

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

" I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice. "

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" The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. "