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"For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue."
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"Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!"

"Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight."

"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."

"We printed all the words out because otherwise nobody would be able to understand them."

"Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly."

"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year."

"We will spend more time in America, we're going to get a place in LA as hotels aren't great for the baby."

"And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist."

"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."

"The doctors say it dates back to a film where I had these huge prosthetic breasts because my character was breast-feeding. The weight of them, and of the baby, did my back in."

"Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary."

"Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support."
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