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You can't get work without working.


I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.


Well, I didn't really admit that I anywhere until my daughter started school and I knew I couldn't pull up and leave when I felt like it.


Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.


I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself.


I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.


When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.


The industry's memory is quite short, it's true.


Americans are like Pac Man. We just eat our way through the day. There's always something going into the mouth.


Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.


Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.


When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.


My roles are in some way like children to me. You don't ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.


Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.


I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.


I like someone who's suffered from both sides.


I feel like I'm the most forgiven actress I can think of, probably because of this short memory people have!


For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.


If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.


I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.