"I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life."
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"I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that."
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"Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference."
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"If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations."
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"I need to go where people are serious about acting."
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"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
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"There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it."
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"I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit."
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"What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it."
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"I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work."
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"For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK."
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"The thing that you have to fight the most when you lose is you feel like the biggest failure in the world."
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"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."
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"All an actor has, I think, is their heart, really,...that's the place you go for your inspiration. If my heart wasn't filled with them, where would I get stuff? What would I have to express?"
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"People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself."
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"We are the choices we have made."
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"Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time."
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"Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other."
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"I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors."
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"There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation."
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