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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"I wish I had a great relationship with my mother."
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"I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."
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"I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day."
Family

"There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress."
Humor

"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me."
Acting

"I had already done a lot of research for Rough Riders, keeping notebooks and old photographs. Some of the books were antiques for that time period, with the covers falling off."
Time

"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."
Death

"Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it."
Home

"I'm probably satisfied with my career 80 percent of the time."
Time

"Even my agents say, We don't know what this business is anymore."
Business

"This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people."
People

"We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself."
Work
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