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" We're going forward until we have an equitable and safe world for women. "

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" The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first. "

" I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese. "

" I have a pretty big range of interests. I love art; I love going to the museums. I dabble in painting, and although I'm not very good at it, I enjoy it. "

" My father taught me how to substitute realities. "

" Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on. "

" There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment. "

" I've definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun. "

" Acting is what happens on the way. "

" I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it. "

" The cognitive dissonance, the denial and cowardice that spare us painful truths and prevent us from acting in defense of innocent victims while allowing 'beloved' individuals to continue their heinous behavior must be jettisoned from the bottom of our souls. "

" I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me. "

" I always want my character to have dimension, no matter what phase of life or situation they find themselves in. "

" I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it. "

" I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem. "

" I did a Christmas movie where I played Mrs. Claus because my children's favorite movie of all time was a Christmas movie that my father did in which he played Santa, and I was like, 'How often do they make a movie about Mrs. Claus?' and, 'My kids will love this.' "

" Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like. "

" My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. "

" The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective. "

" Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action. "

" We want to take our activism and our power into action and change things for every woman, everywhere, working in any workplace. "

" I want my life to effect the balance to the positive. "

" I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was like the make-out queen - not even second base. "

" I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera. "

" We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people. "

" I feel like the world that ' Condor' lives in is very close to the world we're all living in every day. "

" I try to become more humble and more myself with every year. There was a while when I got famous where I was so confused and my head was spinning. "

" I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. "

" Being is like pretending. "

" Being a good mother is really so hard and so important, and it's this thing that all people long for. Think of all the soldiers who cry out for their mothers on the battlefield as they die. It's a primal relationship. "