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" I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes. "

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" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "

" I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that. "

" I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. "

" Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. "

" I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. "

" Being is like pretending. "

" I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in. "

" Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. "

" I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. "

" There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop. "

" I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. "

" There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. "

" I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. "

" My father taught me how to substitute realities. "

" As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI. "

" I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.' "

" I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. "

" We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard. "

" I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. "

" It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. "

" I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. "

" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "

" Acting is what happens on the way. "

" I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar. "

" I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. "

" I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go? "

" I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role. "

" I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. "

" I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. "