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

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" I am that lucky woman who has been living my life all my life. Anything can happen now. Anything. And it will be only whip cream and delightful things. Even in the conflict and the hardship. "

" Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. "

" You know, when I got started on television in the '80s, you would go to the costume department, and if you were a female they put you into a skirt. And you had a pocketbook, usually a shoulder bag. "

" I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing. "

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" I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world. "

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

" The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking. "

" As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think. "

" If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes. "

" 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. "

" An actor's life is fairly lonely. "

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" 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'm very old-school. I like a director to direct me. I like to be the actor. "

" I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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