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" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

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" Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on. "

" I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement. "

" The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done. "

" I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes. "

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

" All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way. "

" I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule. "

" I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing. "

" Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job. "

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

" I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people. "

" The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour. "

" What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? "

" 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. "

" I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America. "

" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "

" What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me. "

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

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

" 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. "

" Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history. "

" I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters. "

" Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out. "

" I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60. "

" Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them. "

" 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. "

" God bless nannies. "

" I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately. "

" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "

" David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect. "