"I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me."
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"I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!"
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"The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on."
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"We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good."
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"I think every time you take on a new role, you're trying to help find that voice and you add your own bits and pieces along the way but with Noah [Baumbach] it's already done."
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"One set of circumstances does not complete you. Maybe nothing ever does. So you work on your life and you work on your 'work' and you try to live every single day like it's your last. And you try to be better, to yourself and to others. I don't always succeed. But I try and it's my goal."
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"I actually always try to have a moment in my show where I can just lay down on stage and talk to people for a little while."
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"I don't have one role that I'm particularly fond of doing, and I don't really look for it to differ all the time, but I will try anything and do anything. If it's a role I connect with, I'll go for it, no matter what's involved."
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"Is it exciting to have a codified identity, which then gets a codified set of rights and recognitions and visibility? Are we supposed to take it from there, within the same system? Or are we trying to upset the table before we want a place at it?"
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"As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure."
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"I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one’s own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise."
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"Be the change you're trying to create"
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"If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling."
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"History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history."
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"The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress."
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"My faith in truth and nonviolence is ever growing, and as I am ever trying to follow them in my life, I too am growing every moment."
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"I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls."
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"What we can do, we will try to do."
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"I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at."
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"When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU."
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