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" I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful. "

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" I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with. "

" I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young. "

" I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. "

" What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break. "

" I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something. "

" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "

" I've worked with David Lynch since I was 17, and working with him is home and family; being around Alexander Payne is home and family, Jonathan Demme. There are directors... Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson... They are directors where I create homes. "

" You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?' "

" It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do. "

" I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. "

" Being an actress my whole life, it feels so good to have a clean face when I'm off, so I'm not a big makeup wearer. "

" I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. "

" I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave. "

" If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build. "

" I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.' "

" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "

" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "

" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "

" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "

" When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble. "

" If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun. "

" There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place. "

" I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. "

" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "

" Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. "

" It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one. "

" My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from. "

" I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters. "

" A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do. "