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" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "

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" I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "

" I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. "

" I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor. "

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" We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. "

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" I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "

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" I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. "

" The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is. "

" I'm all over the place. "

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" I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do. "

" Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? "

" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "

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" I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. "