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" I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking. "

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" My sister took me as her own. My mum had a lot of help raising me. That's what happens in large families: your siblings raise you. "

" I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it. "

" What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast. "

" People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim. "

" I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do. "

" I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days. "

" 'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over. "

" I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it. "

" Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person. "

" People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress. "

" People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "

" My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies. "

" I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart. "

" When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do. "

" Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director. "

" Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person. "

" I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform. "

" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. "

" Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role. "

" There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays. "

" In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much. "

" I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm. "

" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that. "

" I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in. "

" The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake. "

" I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self. "

" Privacy is paradise. "

" I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved into an apartment on Amsterdam with a guy who was also in 'The Burning,' Jason Alexander. "

" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. "