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" You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing. "
Meryl Streep
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" The aggregate of everybody's emotion, it's such a powerful thing. You can see it in the Trump rallies, where people - I just know, in their living rooms, would be better people - are driven to the worst possibilities by the bloodlust in a crowd. It just gets ginned up, and they're outside of themselves. "
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" I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things. "
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" You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially. "
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" I am a humanist. I am for nice, easy balance. "
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" Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. "
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" I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine. "
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" I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. "
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" Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes. "
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" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "
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" The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed. "
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" All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. "
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" I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived. "
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" I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really. "
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" I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. "
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" There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material. "
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" For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends. "
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" I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. "
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" Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored. "
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" Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there. "
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" I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other. "
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