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" 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. "

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" I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "

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

" I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "

" All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. "

" 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. "

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

" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "

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

" I want to feel my life while I'm in it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting. "

" I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. "

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

" What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace. "

" You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "

" 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. "

" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "

" I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it. "

" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. "

" 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. "

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

" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "