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" My father's family is German and Czech. "

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" Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am. "

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" I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work. "

" My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. "

" I actually never got in a play in school. My teacher said I never learned my lines. "

" I feel like if I don't get a film and somebody else does, then that film never belonged to me. The ones I get belong to me. "

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" It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks. "

" I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life. "

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" You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from. "

" I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. "

" I'm drawn to ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances, which is a big part of the human condition. "

" It's really nice when the studio is behind what you're doing, because that's often not the case. "

" Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emotionally. "

" The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people. "

" I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire. "

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" Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe. "

" I love the women I've played. "

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" There's kind of a time you get warned about where the rug gets pulled out from under you: beyond ingenue, before you get into character stuff. "

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