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" When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else. "

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" At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is. "

" Like anything else, acting can become boring - a chore, really - if there isn't any challenge. And I like taking challenges. Just when people think they have me figured out, I like to surprise them. "

" You must always watch when David Lynch makes anything. "

" I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket. "

" I love Clint Eastwood, and I wish to work with him again. He's completely irreverent about everything, including his own beautiful work. "

" I always wanted to do a 'Ms. Smith Goes to Washington.' "

" There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place. "

" If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build. "

" I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner. "

" I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films. "

" There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity. "

" It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that. "

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

" 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. "

" Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with him. "

" I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character. "

" It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. "

" I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress. "

" You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?' "

" If I had different parents who were in it for the money, I might have a different perspective. But they really are artists; they intelligently approach each character and prepare in every sense of the word. I grew up in a world that had great discipline. "

" Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on. "

" I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that. "

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

" At 12, turned 13, made a movie with Sex Pistols and The Clash. Learned about a lot of things I never knew and hope will never know again. Don't know how my parents let me do that. "

" I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors. "

" I love being in my 40s. "

" With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision. "

" I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement. "

" My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother. "

" When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves. "