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" In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent. "

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" I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. "

" I think every part's a challenge, and you also never know if you're going to pull it off. "

" I love my kids with all my heart and the last thing I want to worry about is the air they breathe. "

" You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again. "

" We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things. "

" As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people. "

" Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak. "

" I'm not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I'm terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment. "

" Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying. "

" I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable. "

" You have to be in yourself, but engage with the world and see what's going on. "

" If I had to choose between clothes and furniture, I'd choose furniture. "

" People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film. "

" My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort. "

" I do love my work. As an actor, you live from job to job, though, and you have to be prepared for that. "

" People are very reluctant to invest unless they know it's going to be a sure thing, and let's face it: film is never a sure thing. "

" Green screen's not my favourite thing to do. "

" It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional. "

" When I was younger, I thought I had to shut myself off, work really hard to cry. I learned after a while that that's just not... You know, often in life, you cry when you're caught off-guard. That's where I need to be when I'm acting, too. "

" I'm not really afraid of things that are imaginary. I enjoy it. I enjoy big narrative, and I enjoy big feelings. Having a feeling is never going to kill you. "

" Once I've ascertained that I'm safe and I'm with a director who is taking care of me, then I'm able to go and do what I need to do and know it's not me, it's the story. "

" We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art. "

" I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something. "

" I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. "

" I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational. "

" Parenthood is a very, very intense experience. "

" The one thing that kids need is consistency. "

" At the Golden Globes, they put all the bigger stars in the front; the movie stars in the front, TV actors in the back. But even as a movie star, you can be outseated by a bigger star in any given year. It's kind of hilarious. You have to take it in stride. "

" Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise. "