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I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
I want women, especially young women, to create a world where your success is not based on being young.
We don't want to be reminded that life ends at some point, so they don't put older people on the screen.
Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.
It's usually, my people speak to your people and then they speak around each other and trade calls for weeks.
I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.
I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'
Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.
My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.
Christopher Lloyd was actually the first person - or certainly one of the first few - who ever spoke to me on film.
I didn't work for a couple of years after the Oscar because everybody kept offering me bad versions of Lynda Dummar.
I've never been able to write a movie script. I respect that skill so much, but it's not been the way my brain works.
In my business, guys may age, but it's not even a question they're valued. But women my age are supposed to disappear.
My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.
I did sing in a choir for a while, but if anybody was sick, I always whispered my songs to make sure nobody could pick out my voice.
You've never seen anything until you've seen David Mamet be an Edwardian lady. He always conveys what he means, but he's so... masculine.
Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.
I love being in the business I'm in-I do love being a part of a group of people that work well together. I love it when there's a connection.
I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this.
I'm not a great horse person, but I love horses, and I love all of it. The sights and sounds and smells, the whole genre of Westerns - I love them.
I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.
I did 'Philadelphia' and 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' at the same time. It's kind of wonderful to do it that way, because you get very hyper-focused.
There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
We tell our kids to try for what they want. We cheer them on. But at some point, we stop doing this for ourselves. We shouldn't be so quick to close doors.
I had a sense of mortality since I was a little girl, which has to do with my father, who nearly died eight times in my childhood. He had eight heart attacks.
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the author of that book. I think that's really a good thing.
I grew up believing in Santa Claus, and we still treat our house at Christmas with a huge reverence for that belief - even though our children are 19 through 23.
I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.
I still try to do what I've always said I would do, which is say yes to the things that make my heart beat faster, particularly if there's something scary about it.
I know this is kind of corny, but we thought about renewing our vows again because I think my mom would really love it if we did that in Arkansas, where I came from.
I wasn't making any money, but I didn't feel unsuccessful because of that. You can do that in New York but not in Hollywood. In Hollywood, it is how much money you make.
I know that's why I became an actress. In my dream world, I could get mad and scream and yell, and if somebody died, they got up again. In real life, I didn't dare try it.
I'm not saying it's easy, and it's definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it's different for older women.
I wanted it to be a wonderful combination of being able to dance a little bit, not being especially good, but also playing a character who says the line, "I love to dance".
I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.
We're all very fond of a black box in our living room that works on diminishment of images, that spoons somebody up in a very limited way. It can be a reduction at its worst.
Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes were actually themes that have been a big part of my life.
I was a waitress for six years in New York. I actually got fascinated to see how fast and how good a waitress I could be. I was doing it, so I tried to do it as well as I could.
1977 is the year I made my first movie. Shortly after, I was offered quite nice roles in television. The general consensus among everyone was that I'd be out of my mind to do that.
My family didn't have money to travel, so reading was how I knew about the world. It made me hungry to have more experiences than just what I could possibly experience in Arkansas.
I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.
Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
At one point, I kind of looked in the mirror and said, 'You know, you're a mom. You're a wife. People count on you; you can't go off the deep end into this kind of crazy musical swirl.'
I'm kind of a laugh junkie. It's what I appreciate in life, because life is rich and sometimes it's hard, and I really, really love to laugh and gravitate towards people who make me laugh.