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"I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly."
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"I'm sorry to say that no, I do not play the piano."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard."
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"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop."
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"I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff."
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"We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"After you play a part, you think of it as your own."
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"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."
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"Hey, pretty book, why don't you lie in my lap awhile?"
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"It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people."
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"I think that certainly my choices empower me."
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"It's that I'm 39. I feel hot and sexy, actually... I feel it inside myself. I don't feel dried up and tired and no longer interested in sex is what I'm trying to say."
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"Also everyone's hearts are in the right place when you do a small movie. You're not doing it for the money; you're not doing it for the possibility of an Oscar nomination. You are doing it because you love the material."
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"While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to."
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"I think it's important to do great work."
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"I do know that I have to work hard for every single thing that I get, really hard, and that's okay."
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"Some of the best roles are for women in these independent, smaller movies."
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"We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows."
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"I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me."
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