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“I can't stand most things that I see.”
“How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.”
“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
“Disney, who brought joy, arguably, to billions of people, was, perhaps, or had some... racist proclivities. He formed and supported an anti-Semitic industry lobby. And he was certainly, on the evidence of his company's policies, a gender bigot.”
“I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.”
“Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.”
“People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is wrong if half their participants are not women. Because our tastes are different, what we value is different. Not better, different.”
“I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.”
“There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.”
“I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.”
“I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.”
“I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.”
“I need to go where people are serious about acting.”
“Expensive clothes are a waste of money.”
“Nobody can swashbuckle a quick-witted riposte like Emma Thompson. She's a writer, a real writer, and she has a relish for the well-chosen word.”
“There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
“I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.”
“For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.”
“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”