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" When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal. "

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" I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me. "

" When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy. "

" 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 want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in. "

" My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor. "

" 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? "

" I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. "

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

" Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it. "

" The weird thing about film, which I don't really care for, is that I'm always surprised when I see the film. One way or another, I'm always surprised. "

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

" 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?' "

" I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. "

" I think it's lovely that women are afforded attention on the stage in terms of their inner journeys, their emotional lives. That's the great harvest, the great writing available to women. Whether that makes it to the screen, that's a whole other conversation. "

" I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "

" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "

" A lot can change in the editing room. "

" What women represent to the male is, historically, a big burden. It's a lovely dream, but it's the stuff of literature, art, and everything. Living up to what the male psyche projects onto the female is the stuff of books. You'd need a lot more than an interview to go into it! "

" For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract. "

" I loved acting, I started as a child and it is interesting because I didn't compare myself to others that were doing the same thing. I just felt that I needed to stay focused and stay out of trouble. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice. "

" It's wonderful being the underdog. "

" I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes. "