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" I try to do things I love or care about for some reason. "

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" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "

" If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build. "

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

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

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

" Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part. "

" I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. "

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" 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. "

" The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done. "

" I certainly wouldn't mind if 'Jurassic Park' turns out to be commercially successful, and somebody says, 'Hey, you were in a box-office hit, and if you want to do another movie, we'll give you five million dollars to make it.' "

" You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating. "

" There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. "

" 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 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. "

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" I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave. "

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" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

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