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" I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male. "

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" The industry's memory is quite short, it's true. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

" I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time. "

" But I do love horses. They are such an expression of joy. "

" I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation. "

" All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know? "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "

" What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! "

" I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. "

" I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K. "

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird? "

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

" Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

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" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "

" To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me. "

" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "

" I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself. "

" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

" Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective? "

" The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised. "

" Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life. "

" If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have. "

" I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. "

" I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "

" Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it. "

" Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. "