"I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully."
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"Mediocrity is underrated."
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"People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life."
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"I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work."
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"It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone."
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"The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful."
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"We're dodging bullets and this is right after we've just seen [inaudible] shot and we're running and the woman who John accused of being out to kill us and everyone thought he was kidding. When we see her she appears and she's after us."
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"There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun."
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"I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact."
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"I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones."
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"I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one of those people. I don't think it would be the best drug for me. What am I going to do, start doing drugs at my age? It's a little late. I'm a mother of two. It's probably not the best idea for me to start getting into it now."
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"I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome."
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"I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face."
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"Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones."
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"One person's crazy is another person's refreshing."
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"My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters."
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"My mother is a beauty."
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"Look, I don't care if anyone likes me when it comes to my work. But I can be massively insecure in other parts of my life."
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"I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother."
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"I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious."
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