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" There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place. "

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" I try to do things I love or care about for some reason. "

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" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

" I care a lot about big food and everyone's right to healthy, nutritious food and what's caused obesity in America and obesity in children in America. "

" I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. "

" My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people. "

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Jupiter

" I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately. "

" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "

" When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble. "

" I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18. "

" I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor. "

" I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors. "

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

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Scary

Very

" It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. "

" You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?' "

" It's interesting to play a real-life person who has already been a character on 'Saturday Night Live.' "

" Irvin Kershner, no matter what anyone says, has done some great work. 'Eyes of Laura Mars' is an incredible movie. "

" I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people. "

" I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters. "

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Only

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" My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from. "

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Hip-Hop

Son