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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."

"Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!"
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"My job, I think, is the hardest job out of all the judges because I am the only one that is a performer."

"It's my job to really commit myself to the material and the project and be proud of what I've done, and I am in most cases."

"It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me."
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"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."

"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."
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