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" 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. "

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Seem

Summer

Year

" Is there a higher energy? I would say yes, even if the energy is collective. Even if it's kind of Jungian, or the whole thing is collective consciousness, that may be God as far as I'm concerned. So is there an energy that's higher than mine? Yes. But would I claim it as God? I would say no. "

" 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. "

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My Life

Lost

" 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. "

" I think Ada in 'The Piano' is the most interior character I've ever had the chance to play, either on the stage or in anything I've done for film or TV. "

" 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. "

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

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Women

Now

" New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades. "

" I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient. "

" Do I trust myself? Sometimes I don't even know, but I can only just kind of throw my hat in the ring and hope for the best. Depending on how much I trust the other people is how much freedom I can allow myself to have on that particular set. "

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

" To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that. "

Holly Hunter

Need

Environment

" 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. "

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God

World

" 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. "

" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "

" It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star. "

" I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes. "

" 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. "

" I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery. Don't ask me why. My father was just in love with the idea that I would be an actress. "

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Looking

Love

" I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me. "

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Beautiful

Life

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

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Great

Almost

" I love fiction, you know? I find it fascinating. So when film really does go into fictional places, that's the most exciting for me. And when the fiction is about the person rather than about the place, that's even more exciting. "

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Know

Place

" This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that. "

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Racism

People

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

" What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast. "

" I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies. "

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Huge Fan

Fan

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

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Live

Movies

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

" There was a drama club in our high school, and I just did plays. "