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" People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim. "

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" Privacy is paradise. "

" Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness. "

" The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors. "

" Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something. "

" 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. "

" Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting. "

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

" I believe that there is good. I believe there is evil. Do I believe that they come from God who is watching us conduct myriad never-ending wars and looks benignly on because there's higher purpose to all of this? I don't think so. "

" I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform. "

" 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. "

" 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. It's a very difficult career in the long run, but at the same time, there's no long-haul career I'd rather be involved with. "

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

" 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. "

" Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have. "

" I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress. "

" I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me. "

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

" What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions. "

" I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one. "

" Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person. "

" The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all. "

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

" Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution. "

" I'm a practicing Catholic. And faith is very, very important to me. It was pounded in my head as a kid, and I hated it. And I sort of lost my way in my 20s and part of my 30s and then found my way back. And I don't know what I'd do without it. It's huge in my life. "

" I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private. "

" What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith? "

" I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in. "

" I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks. "