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" I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius. "

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" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

" Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true. "

" Sadly, half of marriages end in divorce. Half of my girl friends and male friends have been through one, and their kids are doing great. There's no shame around it - unless you want to project that on to yourself - but certainly there's no longer cultural shame. Everyone is walking through it. "

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

" I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. "

" I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. "

" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

" I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood. "

" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "

" I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. "

" I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America. "

" Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job. "

" Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for. "

" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "

" 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. "

" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "

" For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list. "

" You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those. "

" In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. "

" I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do. "

" I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes. "

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

" I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80. "

" To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it. "

" 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. "

" I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people. "

" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents. "

" All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment. "