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" Unfortunately, I was making comedies in my 20s, but other people didn't realize they were comedies. "

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" I feel so lucky to have a mom who is not only an extraordinary actor but someone who is game enough to not worry about our relationship versus what we play in movies or television. "

" I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood. "

" I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress. "

" Everything's cyclical. Having been raised by actors, I watched their careers, and the challenge is to take time off. "

" Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate. "

" Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes. "

" Anybody you make a movie with when you're 12 and they're 14, you're going to know them your whole life. "

" I know that I've seen a mannerism, or a way I've cried, or something, where I see a flash of my parents. "

" Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got. "

" 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. "

" For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list. "

" Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work. "

" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that. "

" I've always loved film more than theater. "

" For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow. "

" If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline. "

" As an actor, you're not kind of thinking about your own work or watching the movie for the first time. "

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

" 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. "

" Love means a lot to me, and I love loving, and I love boys. "

" You'll be offered the 'lead' in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, 'a fabulous part' - a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren't many of those. "

" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "

" What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you? "

" Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. "

" I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's. "