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"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
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"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
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"Life is a spiritual breath."
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"If you say, 'Now I look like an old man', you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 'No, I look like a young man now', you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 'Real form of the Self' (mood swaroop)."
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"Soul inhabits body that fits."
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"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
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"Life is a sacred-spirit."
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"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
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"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
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"A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ."
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"I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it."
Soul
"I think we as celebrities have a lot more control."
Control
"By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too."
Time
"Right now, I love the fact that I have so many opportunities, but I know this privileged position cannot last. That doesn't mean that I'll stop working. I picture myself as an old actress doing cameos in films with people saying: "Isn't that that Bening woman?""
Love
"Acting is not about being famous, it's about exploring the human soul."
Soul
"We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed."
Kids
"My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing."
Parents
"I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them."
Art
"We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am?"
Actor
"Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all."
Woman
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