"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."

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"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."

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"You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have."

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"When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous."

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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."

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

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"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."

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

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"There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!"

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"I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left."

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