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" Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference. "

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" I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. "

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" You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try. "

" 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. "

" I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion. "

" Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. "

" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "

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

" The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "

" I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. "

" I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. "

" I want to feel my life while I'm in it. "

" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "

" Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor. "

" Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me. "

" Instant gratification is not soon enough. "

" There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth. "

" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "

" We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8. "

" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "

" When I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it. "

" I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of different cultures. The thing that I notice is that we're all - there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture. And, after all, we're all from Africa originally. "

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" I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s. "

" 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. "

" Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. "

" There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. "

" I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.' "

" I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. "