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"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"It's easy to play a bad girl: You just do everything you've been told not to do, and you don't have to deal with the consequences, because it's only acting."

"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."
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"When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts."


"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"


"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."


"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."
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