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" Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about. "

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

" That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love. "

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" For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world. "

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" 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. "

" There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions. "

" Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part. "

" 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. "

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

" Decision-making is very scary for me. "

" I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do. "

" If you're looking to be loved for a part, it's great and enticing to be adorable in a romantic comedy. But then, as an actor, you get stuck. "

" All I can start with is what moves me and feels like a great challenge as an actor and I think is saying something unusual or irreverent or human - honest in some way. "

" Jealousy is a scary thing. "

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" God bless nannies. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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" If we could all figure out a way to just be true to ourselves and have a good time doing what we're doing, it would be a lot more fun. "