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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

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Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

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I can do a good John Wayne.

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Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

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The only power you have is the word no.

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People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.

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I went to my school careers counselors and said I wanted to be an actor, and they didn't know what to do. They showed me catalogues with pretty campuses and said, 'Oh, look, there's a theater building. Why don't you go there?'

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I have not mutated myself in any way.

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Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.

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There is simply too much of my life that is involved in my work that I couldn't replicate in any other way.

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The last scene in 'Moonlight,' that's one of the most extraordinary things I've ever seen on film in my lifetime. You see two men showing such tenderness towards each other. And it's bold; it's deep. It's complex. It's profound.

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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.

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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'

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I love flying by the seat of my pants, going at something instinctually.

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There's something healing about tears.

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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.

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I was too old, too young, too fat, too thin, too tall, too short, too blond, too dark - but at some point, they're going to need the other. So I'd get really good at being the other.

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I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

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It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.

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If you take it as a compliment that you don't look your age, then you're really shooting yourself in the foot.

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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.

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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

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No actor has complete freedom.

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