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" When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships. "

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" The good thing is that I'm always honest. "

" I don't consider myself a celebrity and I don't consider myself a star. "

" I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room. "

" At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them. "

" My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. "

" I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy. "

" All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. "

" I get cold - really cold - when I travel. "

" I love 70's music. "

" I could have gone to the gym for three hours a day and bought into all that, but I just wasn't interested. "

" I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. "

" I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. "

" I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer. "

" I crave a cone of silence every once in while. "

" I always laugh to myself when I listen to some really big A-list star saying that they are just a normal person. "

" It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes. "

" It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know. "

" For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting. "

" I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. "

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" The thing about death is that it's honest. "

" I'm noise-sensitive. It's always better for me if things are quiet, so I can concentrate. "

" You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first. "

" I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. "

" I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!' "

" I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it. "

" If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film. "