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" 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. "
Meryl Streep
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" 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. "
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" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "
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" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "
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" Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. "
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" I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are. "
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" 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. "
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" Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. "
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" I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it. "
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" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "
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" Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. "
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" How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception. "
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" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "
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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 have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "
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" 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. "
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" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "
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