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" I sometimes feel like it's difficult for people to relate to me, until they spend, like, a day with me, and until they walk around with me in public. "

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" I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. "

" It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly. "

" I do think you feel a little bit like you are preying on people's lives. "

" Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to. "

" I think so, Silence of the Lambs was a great, suspenseful thriller and I would expect Red Dragon to be similar. And I think it's very character driven. "

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" My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world. "

" As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating. "

" I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me. "

" When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice. "

" I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggle with the attention; I'm generally a pretty shy kind of a person. So it's tough figuring out how to manage it. But there are ways of managing it, and you just have to be smart. "

" During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home. "

" In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more. "

" I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me. "

" I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me! "

" Yeah, a lot of people think I'll be a tortured nutcase when they meet me. "

" You have to play the logic of a character. "

" I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. "

" It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable. "

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" I've always been creative, I think. "

" I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. "

" When I did get home this last time, we had all these plans to go out. And then we hardly stepped outside because the time together seemed too precious. "

" I always think I am going to do my best. "