"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
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"Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time"
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"I've thought a lot about the power of empathy. In my work, it's the current that connects me and my actual pulse to a fictional character in a made up story, it allows me to feel, pretend feelings and sorrows and imagined pain."
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"The key to every actor is deep, deep insecurity."
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"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."
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"I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me."
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"Being an actor lets me be a million different things."
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"I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?"
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"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."
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"So it's not a thing that's a struggle. It's work, but it's not a struggle. It's fun. And she had a very particular way of emphasizing points and making her point, and that had to do with bringing out a word that you didn't normally think was the most important word in the sentence."
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"Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art."
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"Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes."
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"Anyone who wants to achieve something, needs a lot of work."
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"Instant gratification is not soon enough."
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"Guard your good mood."
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"The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize."
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"The work will stand, no matter what."
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"I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either."
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"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
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"Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia."
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