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Quotes by Actress
"It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part."
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"I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films."
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"I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think."
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"I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience."
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"It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table."
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"In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set."
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"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
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"It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up."
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"I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned."
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"You'd be surprised. Girls like sensitive, namby-pamby guys."
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"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
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"Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence."
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"I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were."
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"Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me."
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"I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked."
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"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."
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"The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do."
Fun,
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"I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are."
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"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."
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"Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs."
Dogs,
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"I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way."
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"They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is."
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"I bet you think an egg is something you casually order for breakfast when you can't think of anything else. Well, so did I once, but that was before the egg and I."
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"I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights."
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"Why can't we build orphanages next to homes for the elderly? If someone were sitting in a rocker, it wouldn't be long before a kid will be in his lap."
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"And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is."
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"I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality."
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"Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track."
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"Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House."
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