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“I love domestic life.”
“It's all so personal, isn't it? It's hard to talk about work without talking about things that are personal. Work is personal. I don't want to talk about my personal life, but it's on my mind, and it's in my work.”
“I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.”
“When I was filming the Marilyn Monroe movie, I was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen.”
“I did find my direction at an early age.”
“I was born with a fierce need for independence.”
“I want a happy life.”
“It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.”
“I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.”
“I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.”
“I'm not a happy person when I'm working.”
“When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.”
“Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.”
“Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.”
“I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.”
“Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”
“An interview is like a minefield.”
“When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations.”
“I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.”
“I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.”