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I am that lucky woman who has...

I am that lucky woman who has been living my life all my life. Anything can happen now. Anything. And it will be only whip cream and delightful things. Even in the conflict and the hardship.

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"I'm going to show you I have...

"I'm going to show you I haven't given you permission because clearly you're not grown up enough to understand that, not having given you permission, you can't just come look in my house." And I won't know if they're coming and looking or not... so I put a piece of tape over it.

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Ever since Marilyn Monroe was...

Ever since Marilyn Monroe was transformed from one of the prettiest girls you could ever hope to see into an icon, everyone has been trying to repeat that icon. And now the entire industry is filled with, and by and large run by, wannabes.

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Supporting actors are the sup...

Supporting actors are the support. You can't make a building without support. You can't buy dinner without support.

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I haven't had a lot of experi...

I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

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I do get a fair amount of scr...

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

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You ask me a question. I have...

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

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Acting, it's hit or miss. Mak...

Acting, it's hit or miss. Make them laugh, make them cry; hopefully they have a little entertainment.

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An actor has to be very, very...

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

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To get the hippie out of cert...

To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.

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If I'm going to get an ice cr...

If I'm going to get an ice cream cone two or three times a week, then it's a pleasure. No guilt.

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Through all of this lovely in...

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

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The power of television - it'...

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

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I'm not a particularly ambiti...

I'm not a particularly ambitious actress. I love to go and do my work, head down in the dirt, and be the character.

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Why do we have to pretend we'...

Why do we have to pretend we're not in the sales game? I didn't sign on to be a salesman. I signed on to be an actor.

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I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to...

I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.

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More often, I'm asked to play...

More often, I'm asked to play somebody's mother, somebody's partner, somebody's wife.

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I think the funny thing about...

I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.

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I know what it meant to me to...

I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.

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As an actor, you live a littl...

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....