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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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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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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 wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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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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"My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in."
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"It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion."
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"I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids."
Children

"I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between."
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"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."
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"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college."
Mother

"I also know how to ask people for money and I have no shame about doing that."
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"A smile costs about $240."
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"I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam."
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"There's an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact they're not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the child's family and often the village."
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"Season number seven! It's been so exciting for us. When we first began, we were like the little train that could... and we did! We're terribly excited! It will be an interesting season for us, I think."
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