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

" I'm not a media personality, I'm an actress. I want to protect that thing: the suspension of disbelief. The rest of it is just distraction. "

" If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop. "

" 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. "

" It's a fantastic mirror to us to engage with art, to engage with paintings that are about tragedy, to go see Shakespearean comedies, to read a Greek play... We have always investigated the lightness and darkness of the human soul, in all these forms. So why not do it on television? "

" The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake. "

" Pixar has the integrity to not rush. "

" I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor. "

" In the life of a director - these days in particular - when it really does take so long to do a movie, with a few exceptions, actors may never work with a director again, even if they're great friends. "

" I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record. "

" Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me. "

" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day. "

" 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. "

" My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies. "

" I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city. "

" 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. "

" It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo. "

" So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that. "

" 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. "

" In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives - I mean, really enjoying their lives - and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday. "

" There are, in terms of numbers, more leading roles for women in television than there are features. That's absolutely certain. "

" I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person. "

" I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute. "

" 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. "

" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "

" I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable. "

" Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were writing about gods and goddesses versus humans, and how gods could distort, pervert, or help people get what they want. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics. "