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" I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go? "

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" I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role. "

" My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. "

" I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters. "

" I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. "

" The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. "

" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "

" The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls. "

" Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. "

" Being is like pretending. "

" I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. "

" Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. "

" When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. "

" I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. "

" We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women. "

" I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. "

" I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. "

" I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. "

" Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. "

" My father taught me how to substitute realities. "

" I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical. "

" I have great respect for Harvey as an artist, and owe him and his brother a debt of gratitude for the early success in my career, including the Oscar. "

" I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. "

" Acting is what happens on the way. "

" We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard. "

" I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. "

" Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action. "

" I've definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun. "

" I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that. "

" As the plot of 'Condor' unfolds, you'll understand that nothing is sacred in the pharmacy world or in the behind-the-scenes workings of the CIA and FBI. "

" The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. "