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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."
"It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years."
"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."
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"There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement."
"I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos."
"A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen."
"What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older."
"I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking."
"There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time."
"I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine."
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