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" My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. "

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" I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. "

" I've definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun. "

" There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. "

" My father taught me how to substitute realities. "

" I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role. "

" The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. "

" Acting is what happens on the way. "

" Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action. "

" I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. "

" I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that. "

" The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. "

" I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes. "

" I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a great mother.' But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person. "

" I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. "

" Once you've found something you know how to do, it makes you feel you don't have to be intimidated by someone. "

" I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in. "

" We are all capable of so much more than the narrow confines of our regular behavior and our personality. So it's interesting to play different notes on your keyboard. "

" I'll talk to myself out loud a lot. "

" I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. "

" I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. "

" I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. "

" I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. "

" When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. "

" I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative. "

" Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. "

" Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. "

" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "

" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "

" The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls. "

" We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women. "