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" It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody. "
Holly Hunter
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" I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction. "
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" I think it's really odd, too, that the public is so privy to how much money the actors make and what movies cost. It seems to me to be beside the point. When I go to a movie I really don't want to think about the money. I want to see the story. "
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" I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In my high school, we did mainly musicals, so I just started doing nothing but musicals for years and loved it. "
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" I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting. "
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" I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "
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" The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects. "
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" I got a horror film, 'The Burning,' and suddenly I was making crazy money, like a thousand a week, so I moved into an apartment on Amsterdam with a guy who was also in 'The Burning,' Jason Alexander. "
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" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that. "
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Know
" Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. "
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Life
" It is difficult to love people; even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it. "
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Know
Love
Difficult
" I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies. "
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Huge Fan
Am
Fan
" It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo. "
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Go
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" I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself. "
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Myself
Positive
Strong
" Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting. "
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Want
Connection
Movies
" I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat. "
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More
Love
Lie
" In many parts, I start from the outside and then it triggers things within. For 'The Piano,' I went, 'I'm going to learn these piano pieces. I'm going to learn this sign language, and I'm going to do them all day every day, five days a week.' It was a totally physical thing. "
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Language
Day
Week
" Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director. "
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Director
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Opportunity
" I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one. "
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Direct
Than
Person
" If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop. "
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Life
" I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational. "
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Love
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Wearing
" It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television? "
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Tragedy
Darkness
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" People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "
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" 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. "
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Great
Heart
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" I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do. "
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Fun
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Wrong
" I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply. I've always been used to a certain amount of struggle, and that prepared me wonderfully for a mature age. "
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Age
Used
Struggle
" There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving. "
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Out
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Women
" I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity. "
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God
World
Me
" I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self. "
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Myself
" I think that, initially, I was most passionate about music and particularly about playing the piano. I started playing when I was nine, and I was obsessed with it, really. I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent to be able to play the piano professionally. "
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" To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that. "
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Need
Me
Environment