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" What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace. "

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" Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor. "

" My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. "

" I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence. "

" It's a good thing to imagine yourself doing something you think you can't. I do that every day because, basically, if I had it my way, I'd just stay home and think about what I'm having for supper. "

" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "

" Service is the only thing that's important about love. Everybody is worried about 'losing yourself' - all this narcissism. Duty. We can't stand that idea now either... But duty might be a suit of armor you put on to fight for your love. "

" I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. "

" I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance. "

" I can't stand most things that I see. "

" The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. "

" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "

" Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. "

" I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all. "

" I can't do a lot of things, like golf. I don't like golf. I mean, I really don't, because I tend to like things that I can do right away. If I can't do it right away, I don't like it. "

" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "

" My family really does come first. It always did and always will. "

" I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. "

" I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words. "

" If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try. "

" It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. "

" All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. "

" I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor. "

" I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.' "

" My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible. "

" I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work. "

" Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. "

" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "

" You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. "

" It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician. "

" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "