"I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!"
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"But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway."
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"I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike."
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"It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like."
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"Sometimes it's better to forgive and forget. And sometimes, on the other hand, it's better to leave the friendship."
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"I really hate being self-conscious—and being conscious of being self-conscious"
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"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
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"Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'"
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"I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person."
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"I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that I felt OK because sometimes once you see it you realize it is fine."
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"I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important."
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"I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two."
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"I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me."
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"Microcredit is about giving hope."
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"Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl."
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"I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win."
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"People are just funny sometimes if you find the right character."
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"I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices."
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"Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself."
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"I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre."
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