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"I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

"I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner."

"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job."

"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother."

"I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that."

"Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes."

"We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that."

"I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on."
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