"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."
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"Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow."
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"My advice: Don't waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world."
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"People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?"
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"I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities."
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"The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is."
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"True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us."
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"Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul."
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"One of the most important keys to acting is curiosity. I am curious to the point of being nosy. What that means is you want to devour lives. You're eager to put on their shoes and wear their clothes and have them become a part of you. All people contain mystery, and when you act, you want to plumb that mystery until everything is known to you."
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"The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments."
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"Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything."
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"I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life."
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"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
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"All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."
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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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"I'm in show business. I believe in illusion and delusions and in holding aloft the bubble of a dream of some sort because, really, there are lots of reasons to look at the chasm. But art and music, these ineffables, they're just - they're the consolations of what human beings can create and make, and delight is accessible, you know, should you care to find it."
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"I think your self emerges more clearly over time."
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"My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible."
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"Fear focuses the mind."
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"When they called my name, I had this feeling I could hear half of America going, 'Oh no. Come on... Her, again?' You know. But, whatever."
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