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" Sometimes it's very difficult to do a movie that's good and then have that movie make it to the light of day. "

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" 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. "

" So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity. "

" Often, in the movie business, they need somebody who will garner box office because they need to pay for the movie. So the people who are in movies that make a lot of money are the people who most often get cast in studio pictures. In my career, I've never been a box office name. "

" I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that. "

" This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know. "

" 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. "

" A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle. "

" There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What is God, and how do you believe in him - how do you not believe? It's a question the world continues to tussle with. People's beliefs get them in a lot of conflicts. "

" People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "

" I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me. "

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

" When you have an actor on set who is playing themselves in a movie that is about the most cathartic, most traumatizing event of their lives, you don't even have to mention that. "

" After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit. "

" I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity. "

" I don't mind at all venturing off to do a television movie if it's gonna give me something new to mess around in my mind, to turn around in. "

" As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Privacy is paradise. "