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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."
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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be."
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"There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed."
Woman

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
Mother

"These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played."
Mother

"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
First

"I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother."
Age

"In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it."
People

"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
Mother

"Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt."
Men
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