"My ex-husband happens to be one of the most gifted moviemakers. And what is so bizarre about working with someone like that? I guess it is bizarre to be good friends with your ex-husband."
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"There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me."
"In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned."
"Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?"
"Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme."
"If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs."
"I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again."
"It's not so much what do I want to be doing in 15 years, it's how I want to be in 15 years."
"I think it's tough when you're very young and you maybe fall for the celebrity and being the center of attention."
"I'm a New Yorker, and working in New York was divine for me. I loved working there and going to work there, which I've been able to do three or four times in my career, and I just love it. It's my favorite."
"I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that."
"People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word."
"I don't enjoy other people's dramas, and I don't enjoy mine."
"When one stops working at the height of one's career, it's just stupid not to say, 'I want to make sure I have a house.'"
"I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants."
"My parents made no money whatsoever, but they really knew how to see, as artists. So a big adventure might be, on a hot, dreadful day with no place to go, to go out and draw our chickens with pastels. My parents gave me a sense of wonder."
"I had no real experience studying acting; I came to it having done other things for a living for many, many years, and I have this gigantic respect for experience and technique."
"There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying."