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You can't suppress the things that make us human. It's pointless to try.
Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.
I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.
There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!
Well my favorite is really really sharp, extra sharp, aged cheddar cheese.
Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.
It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.
Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.
I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.
We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.
For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms.
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.
It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.
Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.
What does it take to be the first female anything? It takes grit, and it takes grace.
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.
There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.
The idea that people do very bad things for sometimes very good reasons, feels reasons.
I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.
I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb.
I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.
I feel like I run a business although I haven't one. It's planning, planning, and planning.
Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time.
America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.
Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.
If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.
All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.
Don't give up or give in in the face of patronising ridicule, amused disdain, or being ignored.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
People want what they want. Sometimes you just have to walk in defiance of it and just be yourself.
I am not always happy. I am happy in front of the press. I can be extremely grumpy, ask my husband.
I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.
I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.