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" The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together. "

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" In all of the movies and films you see, people are always in crisis because that's what we watch. We watch them deal with crisis and resolve it. "

" I did find it particularly difficult to do Broadway. It was not my favourite way to perform. When I do theatre, I like it to be smaller. I like the audience to be closer; I like it to be less presentational. "

" You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again. "

" As an actor, there are places you can live, and when I graduated from school, it was either New York or L.A., and I liked the East Coast. That's why I ended up in New York. "

" It's hard to keep the romance going sometimes. Because you have a job. And you have children. And you have a house and a dog. And something leaks in the basement, and somebody has to take the dog to the vet... you're exhausted. "

" Movie studios aren't making too many dramas anymore; they're in the superhero business. Material for television is much, much stronger for actors now. "

" I think that one of the things that you do learn is that falling in love and being in love with someone is a rarity. That you don't fall in love as many times as you think you're going to. And then when you do, it's really special; it's really important. "

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" My mom came to the U.S. very young, and then she married very young. But she was never American. She was always Scottish and would make sure that I knew that I was, too. "

" I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me. "

" I can see how Americans misconstrue British reserve, and I can see how British people misconstrue American enthusiasm. I think I'm somewhere in between the two. Although I'm outgoing, I'm also very private. "

" Parenthood is a very, very intense experience. "

" In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three. "

" Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak. "

" I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling. "

" As an actor, all you have is what you know and what you see in other people. The more you know, and the more you've experienced, the more you're able to communicate to other people. "

" Behavior is mutable. It changes from place to place. It's like accents, dialect - it varies from one area to another. But there are universal truths about what it means to be a human being. All the other stuff is like applique. Learning that was interesting to me and probably useful for becoming an actor. "

" I love clothes - I love shopping for clothes, I love wearing clothes, I love talking about clothes - but oddly, putting on the dress and walking around in front of people, that's the place where I'm most uncomfortable. "

" Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection. "

" I'm a very basic dresser. I'm not interested in calling too much attention to myself. I like to look cool without being too noticeable. "

" I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I'm walking on the sunny side of the street, I'll walk to the shady side. I'm too uncomfortable in the sun. "

" Jennifer Lawrence is so talented and so lovely. She has a real ability to connect with people. "

" When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it. "

" Travelling childhoods are a common theme among actors. Army kids, embassy kids, travelling salesmen, clergy. Thing is, you learn about behaviour, that different places are separated by behaviours which are culturally driven. "

" When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading. "

" People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film. "

" I think everybody's political. The act of being alive is political. Unless you choose to be a hermit, you're automatically political because you're part of a community. "

" It's not difficult to take care of a child; it's difficult to do anything else while taking care of a child. Trying to clean up the kitchen after you've had a baby is a nightmare because you have to wait for the baby to be asleep, you're exhausted, and you really don't want to clean up the kitchen now. "

" I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories. "

" Green screen's not my favourite thing to do. "

" You have to be in yourself, but engage with the world and see what's going on. "