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" Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. "

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" I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. "

" It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm all over the place. "

" Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. "

" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "

" Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. "

" People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. "

" The work will stand, no matter what. "

" Instant gratification is not soon enough. "

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

" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "

" I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do. "

" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "

" Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. "

" There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. "

" Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot. "

" I need to go where people are serious about acting. "

" Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor. "

" I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion. "

" I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "

" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "

" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "

" I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life. "

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

" People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different. "

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

" When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. "

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