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I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

Privacy is paradise.

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It is difficult to love people; even when you do love them, it is difficult to know how - how to express it.

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My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation.

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There were so many lead roles available when I was in my thirties. Once I hit 45, there was a real downturn. But I got an incredibly provocative, delicious lead role in a television series called 'Saving Grace,' and I loved the character.

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As we get older, people close down. We get less adaptive, less flexible - literally. Curiosity can diminish, and you want safety. You want what you know.

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Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

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I've never worked as much as I would've wanted to, and that's why I end up doing a lot of stage as well, because stage is a full course meal.

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Helen Mirren is, I think, one of the fascinating actresses. Period. She captivates people and has tremendous power and charisma because she has never cashed in on being an exquisite beauty, even though I think she is. I can't say I'm anything like her, but I hope something similar will happen with me.

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I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.

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The first and most important thing you need to be creative is to relax, particularly for the actors.

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This is one of the reasons I like to act - it's because acting forces you into situations you don't know.

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I was born and raised on a farm, where boys had chores and girls did not, i.e., drive tractors, bale hay, take care of cattle.

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I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

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I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.

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I never thought about moving to L.A.; I always wanted to be in New York. I moved there, and now I still have a kind of love affair with the city.

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Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.

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It's great to go to the cinema and have a conversation about something that is almost taboo.

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If you've had intimacy in your life, you can be intimate onscreen. I mean, come on - I didn't know how to hold a gun, but I could play a cop.

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I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.'

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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.

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I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.

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I get cold really quickly, but I don't care. I like weather. I never understand why people move someplace so that they can avoid weather.

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The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

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A play is a hard thing, particularly in L.A. It's less expensive than in New York, but there's also less of a commitment to people doing plays than in New York. So it's a strange battle.

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I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

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People don't come to New York out of resignation. They come here with a dream. Mine was to be an actress.

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The happiest person in the world has struggled. And none of us are perfect. And people can judge. There's so much judgment going on. And I just don't think that's what God's about.

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I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

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So much European cinema has open arms to stories carried by women in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. And America is a little behind in that.

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What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

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I moved to New York in 1980, and I met Beth Henley, who's a marvellous playwright and who I have a real personal and professional association with, in 1982. I met her in a stalled elevator - we were the only two people in there - and she's been one of my very dearest friends since.

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The whole idea of death is something that we tend to kind of really not deal with at all.

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When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.

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I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features.

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Good female parts are hard to come by, so I go all over the place to find them: cable TV, network movies of the week, foreign films, independent American films, studio films, the stage.

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Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.

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