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"The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."

"My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost all those pounds, I started to feel really good about myself."

"My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true."
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"You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person."

"On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength."

"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."

"We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more."

"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."

"It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!"

"Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering."

"There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it."
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