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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship. "

" It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads. "

" I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. "

" 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. "

" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "

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

" I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. "

" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "

" Being is like pretending. "

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

" I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in. "

" There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop. "

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

" I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. "

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

" 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. "