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" I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV. "

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" I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.' "

" I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle. "

" I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather. "

" I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal. "

" I've moved laterally, as opposed to vertically. I was never a superstar. I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. "

" I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private. "

" I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days. "

" More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation. "

" When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that. "

" It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star. "

" Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great; it's not great on the page, but I need to work. Sometimes I need to make the money. I need dough. I want to work, and so I'll take something that is compromised in some arena. But it's like, actors gotta act. "

" I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally. "

" What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions. "

" Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no. "

" Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want. "

" I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies. "

" I don't make decisions just on the character I'm supposed to play. Sometimes it's based on the director, sometimes it's based on the story, sometimes I need money, or sometimes I'm just starved to work. "

" The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none. "

" The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects. "

" I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me. "

" Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer. "

" This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that. "

" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "

" I grew up on a farm. The worst-looking chickens are the best layers. The ones that are the scraggliest... those are usually the ones that are really cooking. "

" The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors. "

" I'm not religious. I'm not an atheist. Would I say I'm an agnostic? Possibly. But I would say the collective unconscious is something I'm much more interested in. "

" I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks. "

" Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary. "

" Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying. "

" After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC. "