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"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants."
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"I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'"
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"I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents."
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"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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"I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same."
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"When I was a little kid, I used to really embarrass my parents."
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"Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways."
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"I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents."
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"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
Soul
"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"
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"Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all."
Woman
"I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They're wonderful. They're such interesting human beings. I just love it. I'm lucky."
Home
"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."
Being
"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
Soul
"And if there's anything movies can do in a way that I just love, and I love as an audience is, "Show me something I don't know about. Show me something I haven't seen.""
Love
"I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff."
Work
"I don't see myself as competing with other actresses. I mean, I went through a time when I was in New York, and I was going to lots of auditions and trying to get parts, but even then, you're not really competing with the other actresses. There is a competition going on, but it's not like something you can win in that way."
Time
"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""
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