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" I'm always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I'm amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card. "

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" It's funny: I feel like so many people say, 'Monogamy, it's not natural; we created that for a variety of reasons,' but I think a lot of people love being married and enjoy being married and want to be married to who they're married to. "

" I've had friends who did pilots, and I'd say, 'What happened to that?' and they'd say, 'It didn't go,' and it literally goes into a void of nothingness because no one gets to see it. All that money and talent and time put into it. "

" And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it. "

" I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. "

" I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun. "

" I grew up in the suburbs. "

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" There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like, 'I can do this with my life' kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor, where other people feel like they can hire you. "

" I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood. "

" Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign. "

" I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house. "

" I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. "

" I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school. "

" I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it. "

" I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn. "

" I think you're always drawn to what you love, and I'm always really drawn to things that feel really real and really true to me. I love things that make me think of things in a way I hadn't, and I love looking at people in the world in a way that I hadn't. And sometimes big, huge stories do that for me, but I think I am drawn to smaller ones. "

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" I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches. "

" I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep. "

" I'm always studying something or trying to learn something, keep myself creatively occupied, because I think that energy can get kind of destructive if it doesn't have somewhere to go. "

" My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!' "

" With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently. "

" I'm astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their life to it, maybe go over to Syria, maybe lose their life. Then, the next day, it's a new story. "

" I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play. "

" The more fears that we're exposed to, the more fears that we are handling every single day, asks us to exert more and more control over our lives. "

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" I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy. "

" I do feel there is a very rabid young base for 'Black Mirror' that will very much identify with the daughter character because of the invasiveness they feel with their parents trying to control their moves on social media. "

" Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring. "

" Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down. "

" I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'. "

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" There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can't ignore them, because it's not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they're lame. "

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