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" My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation. "

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" With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders. "

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I Can

Career

Nothing

" I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way. "

" I've never directed, but it must be humbling. "

" I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally. "

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Talent

Friend

" This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know. "

" I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me. "

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Beautiful

Life

" With 'Broadcast News,' it became a non-issue, and with 'The Piano,' it became a non-issue. Both parts were written for more statuesque women. It was nice to change people's minds about that, because that's neither here nor there. "

" I reveal all of myself. I bring all of myself to my roles. You only see me. You don't see anything else but me. That is who's there. They're manifestations of my own self. "

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You

My Own

" It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody. "

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Women

Now

" It's considered a coup to become a lead on a kind of cutting-edge television series. I mean, that's a plus for your feature film career and for your career in general. There are no walls anymore between the two. "

" There's no way that anyone can know the ebb and flow of one's career. You can't know that. You can tell young actors it's going to be very difficult, but there's no way you can understand the difficulties and the rewards through description. You have to cellularly experience it. "

" There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places. "

" 'Saving Grace' was a full stretch-out - literally, physically, spiritually, psychologically. And I needed to take a year-and-a-half off when it was over. "

" Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cronenberg. I haunted David Cronenberg for years before, and then he offered me a role. "

" I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.' "

" I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool. "

" Each project, I can almost feel like I'm like a different person. "

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Each

Feel

" There are ways that women absorb situations, and I think women are different kinds of listeners. They're different in terms of how they parse out problem solving. "

" As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know. "

" The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "

" My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me. "

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Difficult

Kind

" I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal. "

" Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it. "

" I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes. "

" I moved to the city in August of 1980, and someone I thought was a friend had an apartment in this wedding cake of a building, so I slept on her couch for a few days. "

" There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character. "

" Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day. "

" Feature films seem geared toward very large budgets, action, broad comedy. That seems to dominate all year where it used to be relegated to summer. "

" As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. "

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Always

Distance