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" I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way. "

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" Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment. "

" I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part. "

" Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. "

" I'm not particularly fond of the hybrid writer-director or actor-director. "

" I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. "

" I always wanted to play a nun, and to play the Reverend Mother was a thrill of a lifetime for me. But, generations back, my family were not churchgoers, which is an unusual thing in the United States. "

" My mom was a '70s mom. She paved a road that no one had yet walked. "

" That's what acting is. You're not alone. It's reacting. That's what we do. "

" Wayward Pines, I tell you, is a strange place, and the entry is always the hardest part. I was just going along for the ride. "

" I rarely know too much about anything I'm getting involved in. "

" 'Wayward Pines' has largely been, in my experience, a show left to the actors. "

" You have to let the costume inform you. "

" Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world. "

" I think there has only been one time in my entire career that I've ever gone back to shoot a scene. And it was a scene that, when we were shooting it, we knew that it wasn't working. We knew there was a disagreement between the actor and director. So, we went back. "

" Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn. "

" Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support. "

" You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is. "

" Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film. "

" I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors. "

" I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you've gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you're doing with your eyes and nose and so on. "

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" Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor. "

" That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it. "

" I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there. "