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"Sure. I've never dated a woman of anything like that, But, I mean, I think it's much more the person that you fall in love with – and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?"
"I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it."
"If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot"
"You really know a person when you sleep so near to them, or when you eat with them."
"If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener."
"If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important."
"Love is very much perceived as "I couldn't control myself; it's love." But you can. Everything you do in response is a choice."
"If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating."
"I always find it a little scary to say that I'm like a character."
"I studied psychology in school, and the best psychology is in literature. It's so much easier to understand a character than a theory. You can recognize yourself—or other people—in a different way."
"We have so much separation between feeling the emotional and physical side of sex."
"No one will ever love you as much as I do. Why isn't love enough?"
"We have so much sex in our media that's disassociated from emotions. We have so much separation between feeling, and the emotional and the physical side of sex. They really do belong together."
"I think the opportunities are all over the place - around your corner or in more exotic locales. But everyone finding their own interest - sometimes it's hard to know what you're interested in, I think."
"Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship."
"I think that most women know what happens that leads you to a point where you're not even looking for intimacy anymore. You're just looking for the physical side of it and not the emotional side of it."
"I'm trying to use whatever attention is focused on me and divert it to something that really deserves the attention and try and sort of stay out of the way of the rest of the stuff."
"We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up."
"And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time."
"I think that we, women, are so often defined by who our husbands are and what our husbands do. And it's time for that to end."