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Privacy is paradise.
Pixar has the integrity to not rush.
The unknown makes people uncomfortable.
I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person.
I've never directed, but it must be humbling.
I am a huge fan of Cronenberg, all his movies.
It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.
I don't suffer the decisions the studio world makes.
I guess I'm more of a direct person than an indirect one.
I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.
I got the Mr. Incredible mold - the 3D, you know - it's cool.
The forcefulness of life is where vitality kind of intersects.
My life has a great degree of dimension without making movies.
I love wearing wigs because they're instantly transformational.
Drama is all about the moment of ultimate conflict for a person.
There's a tremendous amount of humor... in very unexpected places.
New Yorkers have an intimacy with Trump, man. I mean, for decades.
I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.
Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.
Most of the time I live a fully anonymous life, which is the way I like it.
Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.
I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.
Even very ordinary people, upon closer examination, can often look extraordinary.
I'm not a great Maureen Dowd fan, because I really find her poisonous, on the record.
I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.
I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way
I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.
I heckled somebody at the U.S. Open once. And you know, tennis, it's not a good place for that.
As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.
I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.
So much progress has been made with topics like mental illness and drug abuse and sexual identity.
People think I disappear sporadically, but I just do projects that don't get international acclaim.
I think that the audience feels a real connection with Zoe Kazan because she's so instantly lovable.
The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.
What does it mean to believe rather than to know? To surrender to something that's not fact but faith?
It's not like television is now for women who have been put out to pasture. Television is for everybody.
What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.
This is why we have racism, really: because people are confronting the unknown, and they don't like that.
People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.
My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
It's always been my way to move about a little more horizontally. My career has never been like a shooting star.
I like to do research. It gives me a sense of ownership. That's very powerful for me as an actor to just own it.
After I did 'Broadcast News' and got an Academy Award nomination, the first thing I did was 'Roe vs. Wade' at NBC.
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none
I can very much enjoy taking a year off. Whereas some people would feel crippled by that, I can feel enlarged by it.
I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
After 'Broadcast News,' I could have played that same part, but I didn't want to. So I didn't follow it up with a hit.
Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.