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"I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars."
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"When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good."

"Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used."

"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

"There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant."

"Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid."

"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
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"There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy; the characters and their relationship make it sexy."


"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."


"When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous."


"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."


"I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself."


"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country."


"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."


"Is Walt turning over in his grave? A man named Joe Roth runs Disney right now-he gave me the go-ahead and total freedom to do whatever I wanted to do."
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