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"I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion."
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"It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character."
"A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you."
"And that's what the audience was feeling too, as they watched the show and as they watch it now. And overriding all of that is the way it was written. It was written honestly. There was never any manufactured laugh. There was never compromising of character."
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
"I remember that it was never that difficult for me to get a director to look up and pay attention to me. Mind you, I don't know if that's necessarily charm. But I've played roles where my character has to be charming and I've found it quite easy to do. I think some of it is in my bones, but some of it is more deliberate."
"It is better to be gentle than rude."
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"Oh yeah, that's the Holy Grail, Pirates of the Caribbean. Johnny Depp, he's the real deal, isn't he? He doesn't get the girl, and he doesn't care."
"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."
"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
"Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese."
"There are some older women out there who are just knockouts, real beauties, and they're not getting the roles they should."
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