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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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" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "

" More yoga in the world is what we need. "

" It's wonderful being the underdog. "

" I had a hard time calling Laurence Oliver 'Larry.' "

" I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. "

" I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to. "

" I've got a lot of mileage, and I love my mileage. I wouldn't trade a mile of that for a minute of being younger. "

" 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? "

" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "

" I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

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" Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. "

" I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion. "

" You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control. "

" I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world. "

" I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress. "

" I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. "

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

" I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication. "

" I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that. "

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

" There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.' "

" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

" When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy. "

" 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?' "

" I try not to be overly analytical. "

" I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. "

" It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny. "

" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "