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Anything That Feels Good Couldn't Possibly Be Bad.

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Anything That Feels Good

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Anything That Feels Good Couldn't Possibly Be Bad.

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Self Indulgence

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In Countries Where People Have To Flee Their Homes Because Of Persecution And Violence, Political Solutions Must Be Found, Peace And Tolerance Restored, So That Refugees Can Return Home. In My Experience, Going Home Is The Deepest Wish Of Most Refugees.

There's Something About Death That Is Comforting. The Thought That You Could Die Tomorrow Frees You To Appreciate Your Life Now.

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Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Free.

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Progress Is Slow, It Is Uneven, It Is Fragile And In Some Parts Of The World It Is Being Erased.

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It's Getting Harder To Make Decisions To Work For The Sake Of Working. Like Everybody, I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply. Sometimes Something Like The Tourist Comes Up And It's Just Fun, But It's Not As Easy To Find Projects That I Have To Do. I Have To Be Home And I Have To Do Other Things, But I Don't Have To Work As Much.

I Have So Much In My Life. I Want To Be Of Value To The World.

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I Am A Strong Believer That Without Justice, There Is No Peace. No Lasting Peace, Anyway.

I'm Getting A Wrinkle Above My Eyebrow Because I Just Can't Stop Lifting It, And I Love That You Know.

The Coen Brothers Said Something That Helped Me, "when You Put The Book Down, You Have A Certain Feeling, A Certain Understanding. That's What They Need To Feel When They Walk Out Of The Theater. That's Your Job, To Literally Put This Book On Film, You Won't Make A Good Movie, You'll Do No Service To Anyone.

I Had A Lovely Experience Once In Africa Working With The U.n. When A President Of A Country Met Me About Refugee Issues And Said ‘what Do You Do?’ I Said ‘i‘m An Actor.’ He Replied ‘i Heard That Was A Very Difficult Job And Might Not Be The Smartest Job To Do.’ It Was Lovely.

To Be Put Simply Refugees Are Us. And Their Mothers Are Like Us, They Love Their Children The Same, They Laugh, They Dream, And They Are Survivors, They Are Amazing.

It Makes Me Feel Like A Woman. It Makes Me Feel That All The Things About My Body Are Suddenly There For A Reason. It Makes You Feel Round And Supple, And To Have A Little Life Inside You Is Amazing.

In The Films I've Done Recently, I've Been Learning A Little More About The Side Of Myself That Enjoys Being A Light. I Remember When I Used To Dress In All Black And You'd Say. "just Be Pretty, Hold Your Head Up, Be Proud. Be A Pleasant Person And Don't Cover Yourself So Much With Darkness, Your Need To Be A Little Crazy." Now I Have Nothing Against Anything I've Been In Before, Because I Love All Sides Of Me, But I Have Been Experimenting More With That Lovely Woman Side. In This Age Of Feminism, I Would Hate For The Whole Gentlemen And Ladies Things To Be Lost.

Life Comes With Many Challenges. The Ones That Should Not Scare Us Are The Ones We Can Take On And Take Control Of.

If You Ask People What They've Always Wanted To Do, Most People Haven't Done It. That Breaks My Heart.

I'm Not A Single Mom With Two Jobs, Trying To Get By, Every Day. I Have Much More Support Than Most Women, Around This World, And I Have The Financial Means To Have A Home And Help With Care And Food.

When I Was Growing Up I Never Babysat. I Was Considered To 'punk Rock' To Be Trusted With Kids.

My Mom Always Wanted Me To Be An Actor. And I Started Going To Theater And Going On Auditions Young. I Only Realized About Five Years Ago That I Actually Didn’t Want To Be An Actor.

A Single Journey Can Change The Course Of A Life.

If I Didn't Have My Films As An Outlet For All The Different Sides Of Me, I Would Probably Be Locked Up.

To Each His Own. It's One Of Those Things. How You Build Your Familyyou Have To Know What You're Capable Of Handling And How Your Children Will Relate To Each Other. Maybe If You Have One Child And That Child Has A Lot Of Needs, You Realize You Cannot Give More Attention To Another. Sometimes You Just Know As A Parent. We Felt We Could Handle More Children, And We Have A Very Happy, Very Full Home.

Never Send A Boy To Do A Woman's Job.

I Honestly Want To Help. I Don't Believe I Feel Differently From Other People. I Think We All Want Justice And Equality, A Chance For A Life With Meaning.

I Like The Feeling Of Being Dominated

I Love Directing, It Means So Much To Me To Direct Stories About Subject Matter That I Care Deeply About. I Can Act In Many Things, And You Can Try To Experience Different Characters, But To Direct Is Years Of Your Life And You Have To Really Love It And Believe In It.

The Fact Is I Am Not Having Sex. But I Feel Absolutely Ripe For The, What Would You Say? Plucking?

Figure Out Who You Are Separate From Your Family, And The Man Or Woman You're In A Relationship With. Find Who You Are In This World And What You Need To Feel Good Alone. I Think That's The Most Important Thing In Life. Find A Sense Of Self Because With That, You Can Do Anything Else.

Films That I Want To Do Are Few And Far Between.

I Always Felt Caged, Closed In, Like I Was Punching At Things That Weren't There. I Always Had Too Much Energy For The Room I Was In.

Happy Endings Are Just Stories That Haven't Finished Yet.

I Never Like Being Touched, Ever. People Used To Say I Held My Breath When They Were Hugging Me. I Still Do.

I'd Like To Believe That The People That Have Supported Me In My Work Or Identified With Me In Films, The People That Feel They Know Me, They Do And They Don't Have Misconceptions - They Understand. I Believe That.

Breast Cancer Alone Kills Some 458,000 People Each Year, According To The World Health Organization, Mainly In Low- And Middle-income Countries. It Has Got To Be A Priority To Ensure That More Women Can Access Gene Testing And Lifesaving Preventive Treatment, Whatever Their Means And Background, Wherever They Live.

I'm Just Glad I Was Able To Return To Some Of That Innocence And Beauty I Had As A Child When I Started My Own Family, And My Children Brought Me Back Some Of That Spirit.

I'm Shy To Call Myself A Director Still. When Someone Says, 'what Do You Do For A Living?' I Don't Know If I've Earned That.

I Dropped My Pants In A Tattoo Parlor In Amsterdam. I Woke Up In A Waterbed With This Funky-looking Dragon With A Blue Tongue On My Hip. I Realized I Made A Mistake, So A Few Months Later I Got A Cross To Cover It. When My Pants Hang Low, It Looks Like I'm Wearing A Dagger!

I Think It's Easier To Play When You Do Have A Balanced Home. I Think If I Did Have Alcoholism In My Personal Life, Or My Mother, Or Somebody Close To Me, It Might Have Been Much More Uncomfortable To Get In There.

I Want To Raise My Kids, I Want To Get Them Through Their Teenage Years. ... I Do Love My Work With The Un And With Psvi So If I Can Do More Of That And Be More Effective I Will Do Whatever I Can.

I'm Very Careful With My Emotions, And I Don't Let Them Run Free. If I'm Upset, It's Usually For A Very Good, Very Deep Reason.

I Love Great Journalism. I Appreciate It. I Love Good News Stories. I Love Great Books. I Love Great Articles. I Appreciate Them So Much, And They've Been Part Of My Education As A Woman.

I Remember The Days Of Auditioning And Being Nervous And So I Really Didn't Want To Make People Have To Jump Through Hoops To Do Auditions And Be Nervous And Make Them More Nervous. I Kind Of Wanted To Hire Everybody And Find Something For Everybody.

I Have Men In My Life. I Have A Brother. So Maddox Will Have Male Teachers. I Was Raised Without A Father.

People Say That You're Going The Wrong Way When It's Simply A Way Of Your Own.

Our Family May Seem Extraordinary In Some Magazines Or Something, But At Home It's Not. We're Really Just A Very Loving Family. We're Very Close, And We Don't Read Magazines. We Just Kind Of Go To Work And Come Home. We Try To Keep A Sense Of Reality Into Their Lives. What's Truly Real, Not Hollywood Real.

I Don't Really Have Girlfriends In Movies, If You've Noticed. Well, I Have A Few Girlfriends, I Just... I Stay At Home A Lot. I'm Just Not Very Social. I Don't Do A Lot With Them, And I'm Very Homebound. I'll Talk To My Family, I Talk To Brad... But I Don't Know, I Don't Have A Lot Of Friends I Talk To. He Is Really The Only Person I Talk To.

Lots Of Friends

I Think As A Human Being, As A Mother, As Someone Who Works Internationally, I Needed Desperately To Know A Man Like Louis Zamperini In My Life, To Know That There Is Hope.

People Will Say What They Want To Say, And It's Okay. And My Life Will Go On, And I Need To Focus On My Life. So, Do I Need To Defend That I'm A Decent Woman? I Sure Hope I Don't. I Know I Am.

I Never Felt Settled Or Calm. You Can't Really Commit To Life When You Feel That.

We Talk About Orphanages, We Talk About Their Countries And Differences, And It’s A Source Of Excitement And Pride. I’ve Heard Maddox Explain To Zahara When They Are Talking About Pregnancy, ‘no, Zee, Remember, You Were In That Nice African Woman’s Belly. I Was In That Nice Cambodian Woman’.

Love Should Be That Person That Inspires You To Be A Better Person.

There Is No Shame In Being A Survivor Of Sexual Violence. The Shame Is On The Aggressor.

Therapy? I Don't Need That. The Roles That I Choose Are My Therapy.

For Any Woman Reading This, I Hope It Helps You To Know You Have Options. I Want To Encourage Every Woman, Especially If You Have A Family History Of Breast Or Ovarian Cancer, To Seek Out The Information And Medical Experts Who Can Help You Through This Aspect Of Your Life, And To Make Your Own Informed Choices.

I Believe The Only People That Should Be Around A Child And Raising A Child Are People Who Absolutely, 100 Percent Love That Child

Every Character Is A Part Of You And A Part Of The Character That You Are Going To Evolve Into That You Are Not Yet.

There's People Constantly Asking You For Something On Set, So The Multi-tasking Of Motherhood Transfers Very Well To Being A Director. And I Think You're Compassionate.

It's Hard No To Work, So I Find A Way To Put Myself Back To Work. And I Think It's Important, In Between Projects, For Me To Sit Down With Who I've Just Become And Allow Her To Continue To Evolve And Find A Home Inside Me Before I Go And Become Somebody Else. But I Think I Also Need To Learn To Relax And Not Prepare Too Much, Just Enjoy Life. I Notice That My Characters Go Out To Dinner And Have Fun And Take These Great Trips, But I Spend So Much Time On Their Lives, I Don't Have Much Of A Personal Life Of My Own. I Have To Sort Of Remember To Fill Out That Little Notebook On Me.

I Would Start Drinking Something Terrible If I Were In A Situation Where I Was Surrounded By Lies Or Quiet Or Secrets. It's Just Not A Real Life.

There Was A Time When I Was Really Going To Give Up Acting-- Right After Foxfire. I Was Trying To Find Characters With A Certain Strength And Things Going On, But I Was Always Disappointed. Wallace Was The First Thing I Did Where I Felt Their Ideas Were Better Than Mine.

I Love Doing Lesbian Love Scenes. Before I Did My Lesbian Scenes In Gia, I Talked To Actresses Who Said Love Scenes Are Easier With Another Woman Than A Man. Bound's Gina Gershon And Jennifer Tilly Said They'd Lie There And Discuss The Sale At Barney's Between Takes.

For Whatever Reason, I Don't Know Why, But Cambodians Learned Something In Their Suffering And Their Struggle That We Have Lost Touch With.

We're All Just Big Kids. That's All We Are. We Are Artistes. We Grew Up Wanting To Be Part Of The Fantasy Of The Fairy Tales And The Stories.

I See Myself As Mom First. I'm So Lucky To Have That Role In Life. The World Can Like Me, Hate Me Or Fall Apart Around Me And At Least I Wake Up With My Kids And I'm Happy.

I'm Much Happier And More Fulfilled Than I Thought I Would Ever Be, Especially When I Was Going Through A Lot Of Grief When I Was Younger. I Hope It Lasts.

When I Was Growing Up I Wanted To Adopt, Because I Was Aware There Were Kids That Didn't Have Parents. It's Not A Humanitarian Thing, Because I Don't See It As A Sacrifice. It's A Gift. We're All Lucky To Have Each Other.

I Do Not Feel Any Less Of A Woman. I Feel Empowered That I Made A Strong Choice That In No Way Diminishes My Femininity.

I Just Started To See The World As It Really Is And It Completely Shocked Me And Changed My Opinion On Everything.. On Life And My Values And Certainly My Own Sense Of Self.

I Just Started Reading Lots Of Books And Then Called The United Nations And Asked If They Could Educate Me. The More I Got Involved, The More I Suddenly Began To Feel Useful As A Human Being And Felt Like I Was Finally Living As I Should Be.

We Need The Political Will, And That Often Comes From The Will Of The People. So If Celebrities Or Personalities Can Help To Educate The People - Not Influence Them, Not Tell Them (what To Do) - Just Tell Them The Truth About What's Happening And Let Them Form Their Own Opinion, That Will Strengthen Them And They Will Push Their Politicians.

If You Become Aware Of A Public Self, You're In Danger Of Becoming A Very Artificial Person.

It's Easier To Be With Somebody. But It's Better To Be Single If You're With The Wrong Person.

I Wanna Better Understand The World I Live In, And I Wanna Be Able To Learn How To Be More Effective... I Wanna Learn And I Wanna Listen.

Yeah, But Before Anything, I Think In 6 Years Somehow I've Grown Up To Have A Beautiful Home, 2 Beautiful Stepchildren, A Beautiful Husband, My Family Is Healthy And Happy. I'm Financially Ok And I Do What I Love For A Living. That's What I Think, And I Think God, How Did I Get So Lucky.

Im Extremely Honest, And I Pride Myself On It. I Dont Try To Be Shocking. Im Playful, And I Know When Something Im Saying Is Maybe Shocking, But Its Just The Truth, I Never Wanted To Be Scary To People Or Upsetting To People. I Simply Want To Live The Way I Need To Live.

I Am So In Love With My Brother Right Now!

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