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Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
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Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.
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There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
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There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
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My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.
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I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors.
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Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.
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I can't stand most things that I see.
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Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
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I need to go where people are serious about acting.
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I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
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Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.
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The work will stand, no matter what.
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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.
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You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.
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I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.
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The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.
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Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
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All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying.
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I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.
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I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
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My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that.
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Instant gratification is not soon enough.
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The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process.
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
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Expensive clothes are a waste of money.
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I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
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I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
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I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.
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Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
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Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
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I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
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Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.
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My family really does come first. It always did and always will.
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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.
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I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.
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You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
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People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
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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.
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I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
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How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.
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I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
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The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.
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