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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."
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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."
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Personal Development
"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."
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Personal Development
"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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Personal Development
"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
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Personal Development
"An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer."
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Personal Development
"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
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"My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled."
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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."
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"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."
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"I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it."
Life
"Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again."
Possibility
"We were talking about the kissing in the movie just recently. Clearly, it's pretty challenging material, but Ang said two men herding sheep was far more sexual than two men having sex on screen."
Men
"Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script."
Actor
"Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts."
People
"I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?"
Money
"Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life."
Life
"I grew up in a family where many of our close friends were gay couples. As well as that, every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy."
Family
"It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park."
Funny
"The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive."
Father
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