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" My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time. "

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" I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always. "

" I love a lot of the '70s musicians, like Bonnie Raitt. And I love Sheryl Crow. But probably my favorite musician is a woman by the name of Schuyler Fisk. "

" Hollywood is like a piranha. They don't give you breathing room. You don't have time to let your career breathe. "

" 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. "

" Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer. "

" Film is an amazing art form, but so is life. When your career and your life can work together, and one can support the other, it's just great. "

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

" I think that we all fantasize about that teeny tiny time in the film industry when women ruled, back in the '40s. "

" That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share. "

" Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools. "

" It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character. "

" My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth. "

" Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be. "

" For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips. "

" It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me. "

" When I first met David Lynch, he was living in the stables of the American Film Institute... He'd work all night and have his crew lock him in during the day, and he'd sleep. "

" If somebody wants to think of me as a movie star, that's fine, that's great. It sort of makes me giggle. "

" I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker. "

" Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. "

" I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details. "

" 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. "

" Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it. "

" Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost. "

" In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life. "

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

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