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"Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper."
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"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."

"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."

"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."

"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."

"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."

"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
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