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" My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe. "

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" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

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" I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. "

" You can't get work without working. "

" I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation. "

" I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "

" It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress. "

" I like someone who's suffered from both sides. "

" I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away. "

" Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it. "

" I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male. "

" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

" We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us. "