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"That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life."
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"They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK."
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"I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid."
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"Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics."
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"You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way."
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"I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all."
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"I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work."
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"People have to make their own decisions about their lives."
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"I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express."
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"We're viewed as equals - but we're still not there yet. The challenge for our girls, I think, is dealing with that resistance. How can we lift and defuse it, how do we make it so our equality is not so threatening? Our girls are going to have to contend with that. I contend with it right now in every realm I operate in."
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"I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know."
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"There have been directors that I did not enjoy working with, but for the most part I realize that I have been unbelievably spoiled in my career because I have worked with some of the greatest, greatest directors ever."
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"The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days."
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"When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself."
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"I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music."
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"If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now."
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"First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me."
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"Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old."
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"Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily."
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