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" I don't worry when I go away for a while. I think there is a place for me. It may not be at the top of the heap. But that doesn't bother me, either. I think I will always be able to get work - which is the only thing I have ever really been interested in. "

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" Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those. "

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" You don't get to make Westerns every day. "

" I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life. "

" I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it. "

" I remember when I was growing up and watching southern people depicted on television, I thought, 'Well, based on what I'm seeing, I guess I'm supposed to be stupid and racist.' It's still, sadly, the easy route for a writer to go. "

" There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.' "

" I don't consider myself much of a singer. I'm a writer first. "

" I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts. "

" Reading is how I became an actor because I didn't grow up in a house where there was an awareness of film or theater. I also grew up in a house full of teachers, so reading was big in our world. "

" I learned so much about life and other human beings - then about myself. "

" I have hundreds of songs. "

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" In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear. "

" Writing is essentially an internal process. "

" Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up. "

" I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern. "

" I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works. "

" It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has. "

" My mother was a gorgeous person with no vanity, but she was a really good soul. "

" I don't know if I've ever read a movie that's as strange and unpredictable and hilarious and wonderful as the stuff we're doing on 'The Last Man on Earth.' It's jaw-dropping every week when I get a script, because it goes to such strange places. "

" I love to paint. And I have another profession - an interior design business. "

" For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone. "

" As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions. "

" I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young. "

" I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it. "

" I am lucky enough not to have to take jobs unless I love the material. "

" Do I feel like I still need to prove myself? Absolutely. And I want to feel that way, and I like that. "

" I have never had any success in planning my life, really. "

" My agents and managers deserve a special Emmy award for scheduling. "

" If you're not growing, you're dying, and I'm not ready for that. "

" I used to think I was going to die wise, and now, the one wisdom I have is I know very little. "