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" I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

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" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "

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

" I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes. "

" I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car. "

" When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. "

" Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it. "

" I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence. "

" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male. "

" 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. "

" To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me. "

" 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. "

" You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. "

" I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. "

" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

" I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment. "

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "

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" I try not to be overly analytical. "

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

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

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