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

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" 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 always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "

" All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. "

" You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before. "

" The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process. "

" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "

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

" I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. "

" I can't stand most things that I see. "

" How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. "

" 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 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. "

" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "

" The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. "

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

" 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 have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do. "

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

" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "

" Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. "

" People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. "

" Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. "

" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "

" The work will stand, no matter what. "

" I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. "

" I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice. "

" I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it. "

" The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. "

" If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. "