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" Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that. "

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" It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'! "

" There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it. "

" You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have. "

" Whenever I am in Paris, all I want to do is inhale a big plate of cheese. And in New York, my favourite thing is a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Not only do I not avoid carbs, I more or less have them in every meal. When I start denying myself foods, that's when I crave them. "

" Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go. "

" Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting. "

" Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up. "

" Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on. "

" Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment. "

" Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore. "

" I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff. "

" There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising. "

" I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left. "

" I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more. "

" Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. "

" Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets. "

" I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia. "

" Oh, I'm definitely a wild child. "

" As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy. "

" I know it's silly, but I still think I'm 28. "

" I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession. "

" We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more. "

" I'm not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out - and better out than in. "

" If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will. "

" There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.! "

" There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you. "

" On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength. "

" I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends. "