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" I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role. "

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" I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen. "

" I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it. "

" We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon. "

" When I was little, I didn't have dreams to be an actress or a star; I wanted to be a mom, have a house and a picket fence. "

" I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be. "

" Harrison Ford... I love him. He's a man's man. "

" I love to dance. But I don't like being up in front of tons of people. I didn't have the desire to be performing in front of a lot of people. So it wasn't something I ever seriously considered. "

" In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique. "

" I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening. "

" Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do. "

" It's completely different to work with a woman that is my age, maybe younger. "

" Those 'Airplane!' type of movies, they've never been my cup of tea. "

" I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her. "

" The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong. "

" Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project. "

" You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there. "

" I wasn't into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It's an extended vacation, isn't it? "

" As for 'Twin Peaks,' I'm happy to have been a part of something that was a success. The only time I was concerned was during the second season when it started to lose its focus, and I was thinking, 'What if I get stuck here for five years? I would go crazy.' "

" I don't get back to Michigan nearly as much as I'd like to. "

" I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful. "

" There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome. "

" I loved working on Of Mice and Men. It was a wonderful group of people. John Malkovich is to me one of the best actors around right now-and a lot of fun to work with. "

" I gained 50 pounds when I was carrying my baby. "

" I've worked with some people that just spent hours and hours and hours in the mirror, and just so much importance is based on that. And I do find that sad. "

" It's not sometimes realistic to think that something magical can happen, but I think I look for the magic. "

" I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. "

" I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes. "

" I hope maybe somehow I won't be in this business all my life, and I won't be one of those women that's trying to, you know, save what she looks like... My work is about something completely different. It's about what's inside. "

" It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well. "