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" Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world. "

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" I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism. "

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" My body has done for me all these years things I couldn't ever even dreamt to do for characters. It's a tool, molecularly speaking, and I need to take care of it. "

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" I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me. "

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" To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth. "

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