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"I just happen to like the work. I like preparing for a role. I like reading. I like analyzing. I like literature. I like emotions. I like working with other actors."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did."

"As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working."

"People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything."

"For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America."

"I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others."

"It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am."

"I went to America on holiday when I was 17 and, before I knew it, I'd been signed up by an agency and had these obligations I didn't understand, but which I couldn't say no to. This industry chose me. But I did choose to make it fulfilling."

"For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?"
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