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"My run is so weird. That's what I'm most nervous about in this whole ordeal. I'm most nervous about everybody making fun of the way I run. I do, like, karate hands. Instead of running with my hands closed together like a normal person. It's like I'm trying to be aerodynamic or something, so my hands are straight like razors. Karate hands."
"My husband is a very present husband, and that has made going to work feel easier. I don't feel guilty. I definitely feel less guilt because I know he's there during breakfast, lunch and supper if I'm not."
"There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that."
"It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird."
"I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have."
"Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never get made. I don't know who is behind those decisions. It's like you just have to doodle something on a page about the underdog who finally gets the girl and the film gets made."
"I can't hear myself. I can stare at my double chin all I want, but hearing this androgynous voice, you can't even tell what sex I am."
"You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about."
"When you're asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can."
"I find a certain peace by thinking of me in public as sort of an avatar self. You out there can have the avatar me."
"I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical."
"I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school."
"I'm always terrified before every movie because I haven't found her [the character], and I don't get it. [Without acting, I'd have] become a nurse."
"I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along."
"Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?"
"There are certain times when a certain person says something to me, that will stick with me for a really long time. But I don't remember one person being my idol, or anything like that."
"I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why."
"I view the director as my boss. I'm the pawn on the chess board. I don't say something to the director easily, because they are my boss."
"It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave.""
"There's this freshness that happens within the first few takes of the actors actually listening to each other and actually really reacting."