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" I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem. "

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" I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines. "

" I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me. "

" Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard. "

" The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance. "

" I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader. "

" Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right. "

" I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries. "

" I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey. "

" I love working. I love it! It makes me feel awake and alive and appreciative, as does my family, but in a different way. If I was told I couldn't do it, I think I would wither and die. "

" The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement. "

" People are so fearful about opening themselves up. All you want to do is to be able to connect with other people. When you connect with other people, you connect with something in yourself. It makes you feel happy. And yet it's so scary - it makes people feel vulnerable and unsafe. "

" If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive. "

" Planning and worrying and chaos in your mind? Forget it. What's the point of that? "

" I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment. "

" I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive. "

" After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script. "

" To be able to create a character and tell a story is a crazy way to make a living. I feel so lucky to be able to do this. "

" I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized. "

" I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing. "

" I wouldn't play glamour for glamour. "

" My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally. "

" I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it. "

" I hate it when the mother is just the mother in movies. "

" I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely. "

" I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do. "

" Meditation is an essential aspect of my life. "

" I love rides. I'm such an immature person. "

" There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else. "

" Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers. "

" I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change. "