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" I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. "

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" It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing. "

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" 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. "

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

" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "

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

" It's wonderful being the underdog. "

" I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time. "

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

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

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" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

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

" 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? "

" When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. "

" The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?' "

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" 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. "

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