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"My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned."
Life

"Beauty is not just physical."
Beauty

"I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think."
Life

"The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry."
Man

"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."
Learning

"There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."
Being

"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
Growing up

"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."
Being

"The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings."
Love

"While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress."
Work
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."
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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."
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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."
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