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" I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear. "

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" Everything has its own kind of theatricality and its own drama. "

" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "

" You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that. "

" The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies. "

" I traveled to Morocco once, and I only saw one television when I was there, but I did go into this dirt cave and I saw this kid chopping tomatoes and pita, and he had a picture on the wall of Jean-Claude Van Damme holding a gun. That connected with him on the other side of the world, so no wonder these big movies are made - they have a mass appeal. "

" Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational? "

" It's always the girl comedy and the guy comedy. It bums me out. You'd think there'd be a progression, from James L. Brooks and Nora Ephron into more subtle humor and behavior and psychology. All these interesting things people can learn about themselves by watching talented writers comment intelligently on someone else's emotional life. "

" With 'Dazed and Confused,' I got the high school experience I didn't get to have. "

" They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore. "

" My aunt in Texas, when she did the hazing things, they had girls swallow oysters. They'd wrap an oyster in dental floss, swallow them, and then pull them back up. "

" There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that. "

" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "

" I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl. "

" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "

" I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.' "

" I had dreams of conehead aliens when I was little. Before 'Saturday Night Live' did it. And then they came out with them, and I went on to be a glorified extra in the movie. When everyone else was laughing, I was scared. "

" I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining. "

" It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform. "

" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "

" You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. "

" I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. "

" It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good. "

" It's not really cool to be singled out. "

" I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool. "

" There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together. "

" My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. "

" I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s. "

" I've seen deer. I have lots of woodchucks on my property. And bluebirds. Foxes. "

" As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something. "

" My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. "