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" To be able to create a character and tell a story is a crazy way to make a living. I feel so lucky to be able to do this. "

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" The one thing I want to do - and I am doing - is starting my own production company, for me to produce and direct in the future. Have a bit more say and control - become the storyteller more than just the character. I want to choose the story, plant the seed, and watch it grow. I just want to have a bit more involvement. "

" I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized. "

" I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do. "

" The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. "

" I've done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it's a great, great town. "

" I think when I was younger, I used to sort of long to be a part of films that were really gritty and hardcore in a way. "

" I played a lot of mothers before I even became a mother. It wasn't like I set out to be some sort of mother crusader. "

" Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard. "

" When I look at a character, I never look at the size of the role. I always look at the whole person, no matter how much they're featured in the movie. "

" I believe in nurturing the inner world. "

" I really only take roles that I love and that I have some kind of innate compulsion or need to tell that story. Although it's almost like I have no control over it. It's like they choose me. "

" After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script. "

" I can't imagine a world without music. "

" Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, and you know everyone's done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it's just a wonderful outcome. "

" I wouldn't play glamour for glamour. "

" I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. "

" I have trouble admitting I'm wrong. "

" I find it strange that actors are on the covers of magazines. "

" My face moves, unlike some actors' do. I guess it's kind of a response to what's happening internally. "

" I prefer comedies when they come from a dark kind of place and have a reality to it. "

" I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey. "

" In a lot of films, forever it's been boy-meets-girl, and thank God for films like - I know it's going to sound ridiculous - 'Frozen.' I was so excited for my daughter to be able to watch a love story between two sisters instead of some stupid prince. "

" Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice. "

" I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change. "

" My life is fancy dress, so I prefer not to do it in my spare time. "

" Travelling's so much better when you know you've got a lovely home to go back to. "

" Mothers are so awesome. They do so much. They wear so many hats and have very passionate relationships with their kids, and with life, and I think it's a real balance having your own existence and then being this responsible, kind of loving person in someone else's life or several other people's lives. "

" I'm a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of longstanding love of specific bands would be Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, REM. "

" I'm glad that it was so physical and so isolated. "

" I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life. "