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"I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation."
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"Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day."

"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."

"A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship."

"The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees."

"A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece."
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"Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading."

"I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time."

"The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me."

"You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?"

"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."
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