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I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. The work is the most fun; it seems illicit how much fun it is.

I have a very clear understanding of what my voice is. It's like a B voice. It hovers around B-minus, B-plus. I have great friends who are wonderful singers, and I know I'll never be able to do that. But singing through a character is something I can do.

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

I have four to five months, tops, per year to give to my acting work.

I know movies are a function of our dream world. And when you project yourself on screen, it's easier to project yourself into what you were, not what you are.

I know what I do and what it means to me and where its sources lie, and that's mine. It still is mine.

I let the actions of my life stand for what I am as a human being. Contend with that, not the words.

I need to go where people are serious about acting.

I remember, as I was hovering around 40, I thought each movie would be my last, really.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work. I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the water's drowning you out, and there is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I think you have to listen to the people who are deeply unhappy. You have to find the source of it and not overreact to the craziness in it.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I was offered, within one year, three different witch roles. It was almost like the world was saying - or the studios were saying - 'We don't know what to do with you.'

If I am not confident that I can portray the character perfectly on screen, I won't even try.

I'm all over the place.

I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

I'm really interested in the collaborative thing. It's what makes it scary because you never know what it's going to end up like. But you hope. You put yourself in the hands of the best people you can find, and you're completely dependent on the kindness of strangers and their commitment. It's like this mutual delusion.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

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