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“Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.”
“The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.”
“I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.”
“The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.”
“People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.”
“You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.”
“I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things.”
“If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.”
“I'm all over the place.”
“Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.”
“I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.”
“You can't strategize falling in love, can you? It's never worked. People love you the most and set you up, and it doesn't work because you can't predict these things. You fall in love serially.”
“All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.”
“Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.”
“I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.”
“Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.”
“Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.”
“I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.”
“I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.”
“It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.”