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" With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders. "
Holly Hunter
I Can
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Nothing
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" After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC. "
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" I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity. "
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" 'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next. "
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" I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private. "
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" Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness. "
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" Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage. "
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" The cool thing about those small-budget movies is that there's a tremendous amount of freedom the filmmakers have since there's less money at stake. "
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" I wouldn't even go spend the night at a friend's unless they had a piano. But I didn't have the chops, the extraordinary talent, to be able to play the piano professionally. "
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" Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person. "
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" I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time. "
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" I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it. "
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" Pixar has the integrity to not rush. "
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" I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool. "
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You
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" I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one. "
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Than
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" I don't think it's wrong to make fun of some of the stuff that we think and we do. "
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" I've enjoyed the process of understanding who I am through my work and who I am in relation to others: the intense collaboration that acting requires and thrives in. "
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" People have always searched for answers. That's why we have religion; people have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "
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Been
Always
" The self-help section of national bookstore chains in America is one of the largest sections. In a way, it's nothing new, and in another way, very new. People have always searched for answers; that's why we have religion. People have always been seeking some relief from their own mortality. "
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America
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" I've always had to move between a couple of years of unemployment, where offers are not provocative enough to take, and seasons where I work nonstop for a year. It's always been an erratic rhythm. "
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Seasons
Enough
Always
" Sometimes it's the lead, but there are not always leads out there, so then it's an interesting supporting character, or there's a lot of dough, although that happens less and less. Let's have a good laugh about that one. "
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Out
Interesting
Laugh
" Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people. "
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" Sometimes it's the script or an opportunity to work with an incredible director. "
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Opportunity
" I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient. "
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" In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much. "
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" The unknown makes people uncomfortable. "
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Makes
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" I liked to carry the script into an audition because, for me, it reminded people that this was not the final performance. I'm still a work in progress. "
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Performance
" I am often offered roles or women who are very strong, uncompromising. But it's fun to do 'Manglehorn,' where I'm playing somebody who's very open, very optimistic, very positive. I don't want to bore myself. "
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" I'm not a classically beautiful person, but hopefully it increases my longevity as an actress that my career isn't dependent on my great, great good looks. "
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" Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something. "
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" In my real life, I see people who are really enjoying their lives - I mean, really enjoying their lives - and they take joy in their daily obligations; they just do. And I believe that at a certain point, you've got to choose to be that way. You choose to approach your life that way. Or it's all kind of a drag until Friday. "
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People
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