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" Lars Von Trier is a genius. Every film he makes is so honest and powerful. "
Toni Collette
Honest
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Von
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" I've never had a game plan. It's just if something comes along and it feels right in the moment. "
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" I think it's important to relax in general. I don't try to save up my relaxing for one month period of the year; it's kind of a daily practice that I've tried to remain aware of. "
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" I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated. "
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" In a lot of films, forever it's been boy-meets-girl, and thank God for films like - I know it's going to sound ridiculous - 'Frozen.' I was so excited for my daughter to be able to watch a love story between two sisters instead of some stupid prince. "
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" I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. "
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" The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement. "
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" I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing. "
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" I've done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it's a great, great town. "
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" I just never want to repeat myself. I also don't want to be bored in life. The great luxury of being an actor is you get to be different people, and I would hate to be repetitive. "
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" The potential strength of female friendship and the bonds that can be formed, especially over a lifelong relationship, is very profound. "
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" My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally. "
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" I wouldn't play glamour for glamour. "
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" I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized. "
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" My plan is to have no plan. If you know what plan you have, life has its own ideas and will take you in any direction it pleases. So my idea about life is to just be open to it and to go with the flow and go with my gut. "
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Know
" I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change. "
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" I hate it when the mother is just the mother in movies. "
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" I believe in nurturing the inner world. "
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" I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do. "
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" I kind of realized I could sing, so I played around with that for a while. And that led me to acting in itself, which I came more passionate about by the age of 15. "
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" An accent in a way can be an entry into a character. "
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Way
Entry
Accent
" Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right. "
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" We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive. "
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" I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it. "
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" When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie. "
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" Planning and worrying and chaos in your mind? Forget it. What's the point of that? "
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Forget
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" If I get dressed up, and my boyfriend says, 'You look gorgeous,' I kinda feel funny. I don't know if I'm particularly comfortable with being attractive. "
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" I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem. "
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" Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice. "
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" I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me. "
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" I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life. "
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