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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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"My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things."
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"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps."
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"This is my present, you know. My present from Mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
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"Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother."
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"My mother had morning sickness after I was born."
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"It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is."
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"When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk."
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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
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"I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then."
Father
"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."
Performance
"I think that the day you've figured out the differences between women and men is the day that you're no longer attracted to women. It's the difference that is so fantastic and frustrating and angering, and really sexy."
Men
"I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it."
Work
"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
Father
"I'm not that complicated as an actor. I have a formula in which I work, yeah. But not like Sean Penn does. Sean is one of the few actors I know who can work like that, actually becoming the character he is playing, and get consistent results. I don't believe you can ever be someone else. You manifest different levels of your own personality to come up with a character."
Work
"I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me."
Love
"There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work."
Movies
"I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press."
People
"I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?"
Life
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