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" In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling. "

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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. "

" Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly. "

" I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful. "

" We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that. "

" It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. "

" When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves. "

" Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys. "

" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "

" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "

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

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

" I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. "

" My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric. "

" I resent ever being stereotyped. "

" 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. "

" I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's. "

" Every role is a new form of surrender. "

" If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun. "

" If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck. "

" My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. "

" It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' "

" Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for. "

" I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors. "

" I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit. "

" Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. "

" I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. "

" All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment. "

" 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. "

" It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. "

" I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner. "