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I'm not a big fan of mediocre.
It's hard to balance work and family.
I've never really liked horror films.
I don't think any extremism is rational.
I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
Working on 'King Of Texas' was a life experience for me.
I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.
I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.
I loved playing Anne Bancroft, because she was so wonderfully arch.
The trophy wife must be in her 20s to earn the title 'trophy wife.'
In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.
Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.
You know what I miss? I miss myself, that time to just do things for myself.
Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.
I think families should vacation together, and cruising is a wonderful option.
I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.
You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.
There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.
Its important that kids learn, but I really dont like all the testing, testing, testing.
I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.
I played Laura Bush in a Tony Kushner piece, and afterward, I think my phones got tapped.
In my kids school, the married family is an anomaly which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.
If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.
If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.
The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.
Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.
Whether you win or not, the night the Oscars are over, the curtain goes down and you go back to the grind. Period.
In any film, there are 10 male roles for 1 female role, especially in the action films. They're heavy with the guys.
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
I relate to people and roles that are about the arc of human experience, things that everyday people deal with every day.
You have to make sure that you and your child are connecting, and it does help when they are looking directly into your eyes.
So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.
I love being a mother; I hate being a housewife - the cooking, the laundry - because it takes away time I could be with my kids.
The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.
Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.
In my opinion, Zac Efron is a total hero. Him seeking help encourages other people with addictive issues to seek help. It's brave of him.
I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.
I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'
I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.