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" I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.' "

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" To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me. "

" I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world. "

" Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong. "

" Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective? "

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

" We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "

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

" Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting. "

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

" Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done. "

" When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. "

" But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. "

" Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder. "

" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

" Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth. "

" I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me. "

" The potential hot tomato of today can turn into the cold pop tart of tomorrow, and I know that. "

" I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male. "

" Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life. "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "

" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "

" The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition. "

" I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. "

" When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents! "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" 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. "