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" When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents! "

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" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "

" You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. "

" I just enjoy going to the games, but if you're watching the Lakers play, it feels good to be rooting for the Lakers. You're on the winning end of things most of the time. "

" I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. "

" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "

" Playing dead is difficult with a full bladder. "

" Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving. "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "

" We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us. "

" The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?' "

" So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done. "

" I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself. "

" I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication. "

" Oh, I'm just too chicken to experiment with my face and have it go wrong. I'm not saying I never will. But it's like, what scares you more? Getting old or looking weird? "

" Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong. "

" I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. "

" Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done. "

" When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. "

" If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have. "

" Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it. "

" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. "

" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "

" My relationship with aging is cozy. I'm not trying to play 29 and holding on with white knuckles, you know? "

" I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to. "

" To me, there's no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with. "