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" Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person. "

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" People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different. "

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" I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot. "

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" I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it. "

" Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. "

" Expensive clothes are a waste of money. "

" America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances. "

" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "

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" Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. "

" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "

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