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" 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. "

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" I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was. "

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

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

" For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career. "

" 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 was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car. "

" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "

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

" I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that. "

" It's all so confusing and incestuous and curious, the trail that actors wander through in the course of their careers and how stories overlap. It's funny. "

" It's nice to have a pause to parent and to be more present at home, teaching them how to drive cars and navigate boys and all this sort of thing. "

" 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. "

" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "

" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "

" I love my work, but there is no price you can put on what you miss when you are away from your kids. "

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

" So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "

" I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who's not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment. "

" Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. "

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

" Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to. "

" I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself. "

" Well, I can fake my way around some things, but I don't think I would be good at betting. "

" I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have! "