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" My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle of the night.' And I remember thinking, 'You didn't get up in the middle of the night! Every kid gets up in the middle of the night!' "

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" I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn. "

" There's a part of me as a human being and, certainly, as an actor - I'm not on Twitter and Facebook and all these things, but I can't ignore them, because it's not realistic to expect my kids are gonna think they're lame. "

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Human Being

Think

" Thinking about it, you know, our phones are everything. They're kind of benign. "

" I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play. "

" Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down. "

" With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently. "

" I know more about 'Moana' and 'Coco' these days than I do about anything hip and cool like 'Black Mirror'. "

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Know

" I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school. "

" I remember one time my cousin telling me - she's got four kids - she would pour the milk down the drain so she could drive to the Dairy Barn just to get out of the house. "

" I think you're always drawn to what you love, and I'm always really drawn to things that feel really real and really true to me. I love things that make me think of things in a way I hadn't, and I love looking at people in the world in a way that I hadn't. And sometimes big, huge stories do that for me, but I think I am drawn to smaller ones. "

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World

People

" I feel like, in my 20s, I was putting my hair in a ponytail and pinching my cheeks and raising my voice an octave. So I feel more comfortable being a woman than I did being a young ingenue. "

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Hair

Feel

" I haven't been really guilty of being an uber helicopter parent; I took the baby monitors out when they were three months old because I thought that was an invasion of their privacy. "

" I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families. "

" I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. "

" In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity. "

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Humanity

Fall

" I just don't spend maybe enough time figuring out my place. Maybe I do in the world, but not so much in Hollywood. "

" I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.' "

" I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun. "

" I'm astonished by how much journalists stay with the story, try to get to the truth of the story, maybe give years of their life to it, maybe go over to Syria, maybe lose their life. Then, the next day, it's a new story. "

" There's nothing scarier than just having a moment where you looked away and lost your child. "

" There's something to be said for being given a tremendous amount of freedom as an actor. "

" I'm always surprised that I get called to work. I always feel the way I felt when I was 24 or 25 trying to get a job. I'm amazed I have my SAG card and my Equity card. "

" And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it. "

" I don't actually think I'm treated unfairly or anything. If anything, I sometimes can't understand why I don't see myself and the people I know represented more in films. Unless I'm going to go out and write them myself, I don't feel like I can really complain about it. "

" In parenthood, there's so much fear around parenting in this day and age, and there's so much fear around technology. "

" A lot of times, they can't hire actors just because there's this obligation that the audiences don't know who they are, and it's about making money. For me, the project that felt like all of it was 'Rachel Getting Married' because I had such a good time on that movie. Jonathan Demme, to me, is one of the most actor-friendly directors. "

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Time

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" I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. "