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" I grew up watching Wonder Woman; I grew up watching Batman. I grew up watching George Reeves as Superman. "

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" When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal. "

" I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

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" Pete Docter's a genius isn't he? "

" I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger. "

" What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! "

" All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know? "

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

" I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car. "

" The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised. "

" I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. "

" It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film. "

" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "

" My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know? "

" I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. "

" I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. "

" I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion. "

" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation. "

" I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice. "

" To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with. "

" Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it. "

" I try not to be overly analytical. "

" I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress. "

" I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. "

" So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done. "