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" You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that. "

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" Chris Guest has his own form. It's a way of working that is really intense, and you can commit a lot, and you focus a lot. You get to bring a lot. You get to bring things maybe you haven't seen before. You're asked to care a great deal for these people who you're playing and create heart and empathy. "

" My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. "

" It's not really cool to be singled out. "

" I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York. "

" I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy. "

" As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something. "

" It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying. "

" I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron. "

" Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable. "

" You can get money and make a really cheap movie. You can, from independent financers who are just giving you money to support artists. This is what was happening in the '90s, and I was very fortunate to be a part of that. "

" But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake. "

" You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love. "

" I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining. "

" There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months. "

" I like trying different foods. I've done vegetarian stuff, and I've gone through meat phases, and then I do no bread, and then I eat bread. I'm really all over the place in the way a lot of actors are. "

" We shot 'Party Girl' on film, and I remember being told, 'We need to get this in two takes because we don't have a lot of film in the mag right now!' "

" I just want to balance myself holistically and see what different foods do what to me. "

" The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance. "

" I would love to do something like 'Fishing With John.' "

" I love 'Fishing With John' so much. "

" Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful. "

" My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell. "

" I care about being creative and expressing myself. "

" I can do comedy, so people want me to do that, but the other side of comedy is depression. Deep, deep depression is the flip side of comedy. Casting agents don't realize it but in order to be funny you have to have that other side. "

" I was reading this book called 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind.' It's really, really good if you want to believe in that stuff. "

" I usually play character parts in Hollywood films. "

" I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic. "

" Do you know why I don't like doing press? I have trouble condensing things. I'd rather have a conversation. "

" It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it. "