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I love playing an alien.
I love the role of Ripley.
I consider myself very much a team player.
I am a person who goes out without a purse.
Please, God, please, don't let me be normal!
I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.
We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.
Every role sort of teaches you how to prepare for it.
Maybe you're better to play a villain just straight out.
People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.
There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.
I feel self-doubt whether I'm doing something hard or easy.
I was discouraged at drama school, along with most of my peers.
Only someone who believes in marriage would be married five times.
Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.
I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.
Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!
Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act!
If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.
I had always done theater in extracurricular ways. I'd never been a drama major.
I really enjoy working with younger actors. I just feel like we're all peers together.
It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.
As long as your robot isn't programmed by like Dr. Evil, I think you're going to be fine.
Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.
I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.
It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.
I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.
I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.
I always find it particularly difficult to work in New York because there are so many things to do.
It's rather rare when you play an older character in a movie in a supporting role to even get an arc.
I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.
I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups.
Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.
I am a person who goes out without a purse. I put things in my coat pockets, so I don't have any accessories.
It's such a nice change to get to play a wretched, shallow, mergers-and-acquisitions woman. My true colors come out.
For the camera, particularly, I feel like - I think that, as human faces become older, they become more interesting.
Art school is a very difficult thing to run in a generous, humane way, because academic power is somehow very corrupting.
I can do five things at once. I'm tapping my foot, I'm opening my mouth and talking to you, and looking at the bulletin board.
I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.
Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.
I think that every piece has its challenges. I love going back and forth between one and the other. I'll always pick a comedy over a drama.
I love working with young people and young filmmakers, and I love working on first films. I think it's cool. It's fun. I just take it as it comes.
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.
I think breathing is actually the key to a lot of opening up of other parts of yourself that you haven't used, for any job, but particularly in acting.
Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.
I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!
Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.