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Directing Was A Transformative Experience For Me, One That I Really Enjoyed.

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Attention
Pay
My Default Is Self-destruction, And Anything On Top Of That Is A Bloody Lot Of Work.
Self
Destruction
Default
I Love It When Women Come Up To Me And Tell Me I'm A Positive Influence On Their Lives And The Lives Of Their Young Daughters. That's A Great Feeling.
Daughter
Children
Feelings
I Simply Cannot Fathom The Horrors Of Being Enslaved, And The Thought That Children Are Ripped Apart From Their Families And Used Year In And Out For Sex And Hard Labor Under The Threat Of Violence And Death Breaks My Heart.
Sex
Children
Heart
I Believe People Are In Our Lives For A Reason. We're Here To Learn From Each Other.
Inspirational
Life
Positive
I Simply Cannot Fathom The Horrors Of Being Enslaved, And The Thought That Children Are Ripped Apart From Their Families And Used Year In And Out For Sex And Hard Labor Under The Threat Of Violence And Death Breaks My Heart.
Sex
Children
Heart
After I Did Nine Years Of A Television Series, I Didn't Want To Do Anything Really That Involved Going To A Set And Being In Front Of A Camera For Quite A While. And When I Did Start To Want To Do Things, I Wanted To Focus More On Film.
Years
Focus
Cameras
I Mean The Whole Thing About Meditation And Yoga Is About Connecting To The Higher Part Of Yourself, And Then Seeing That Every Living Thing Is Connected In Some Way.
Yoga
Mean
Meditation
Unfortunately, The Belief That Women Are A Minority Is Endemic In Most Cultures Around The World. Obviously Some Take It To The Extreme Where Violence Against Women Is Legal And Supported And In Other Cultures It Is More Subversive And Easy To Dismiss As "progress."
Other Cultures
Progress
Minorities
You're Only Given As Much As You Can Handle At Any Given Time. Whether It's True Or Not, It Gives You The Strength.
Giving
Given
Handle
If I Chose To Have A Nanny, I'd Be Able To Pay To Have A Nanny - A Lot Of Women Don't Have That Opportunity. I Don't Feel Like I'm A Working Single Mom, Because I Have That Option That A Lot Of People Don't Have.
Mom
Opportunity
People
I Became An Actor Because It Was The Only Thing I Could Do. I Didn't Have Any Friends, I Didn't Fit In. But When I Started Acting Everything In My Life Shifted And I Felt Happy.
Acting
Actors
Fit
[on Her Role As Special Agent Dana Scully On The X-files (1993)] I Am More Spontaneous Than My Character.
Character
Spontaneity
Spontaneous
Education Is Key. We Have To Keep Girls In School And Give Them The Same Opportunities That Boys Have. They Need Access To Vocational Training And Mentorship, As Well. It's An Issue Of Gender Equality, Which Is Fortunately A Hot Topic Right Now, But We Need To Keep At It And Not Rest On Our Laurels.
Girl
School
Boys
I Truly Beleive That We Can Overcome Any Hurdle That Lies Before Us.
Lying
Overcoming
Hurdle
You Know, It's A Big Version Of An Episode, Which I Think Is Necessary At This Point Because We're Drawing In People Who Not Only People Who Have Seen The Show Before And Are Devoted To It, But People Who Have Never Seen It Before.
Thinking
Drawing
People
Self-esteem Should Have Nothing To Do With What You Look Like – If You Exude Genuine Confidence, People Will Be Swept Into It. You Have To Be Able To Hold Yourself.
Self Esteem
Should Have
People
I Will Only Take Something Or Agree To Do Something That I Feel Like I Understand, And Inherent In Understanding Is Empathy.
Empathy
Understanding
Feels
I Tend To Be Very Skeptical And Judgmental. I'm Not Really A Conspiracy Theorist, But I'm More Likely To Believe The People That Speak About A Conspiracy, Or Are Convinced Of Conspiracies In The Government, Than The People Who Have 100 Percent Faith In The People Who Are Running America.
Running
Believe
People
Human Trafficking Is A Globally Assisted Pandemic That Generates Billions Of Dollars Of Income A Year.
Years
Pandemics
Dollars
I've Got Huge Tubs Full Of Stuff That I Can Sell On Ebay. If There Are People Out There That Are Interested, I Want Them To Come My Way And Buy My Jackets And Hats And Scripts That Are Signed By Everybody.
Ebay
People
Want
I Know People Who Are Embarrassed To Be American. They Don't Like Showing Their Passports. It's Becoming A Scary Place. It Takes Someone Very Brave Not To Be Quiet, Someone Who Doesn't Mind Death Threats, Their Life Being Turned Upside Down, News Cameras Outside Their Door. There Is No Freedom Of Speech In America Anymore. They Are Not Living Up To The Constitution. There's So Much Fear In America And Control.
Doors
America
People
The First Time, Where Fox Mulder And Scully Met, She Stands Up For Herself. She Stands Right There And Gives It To Him And That Was Extremely Attractive.
Giving
Firsts
Foxes
I Wouldn't Say I'm Normal. But I'm Relatively Stable. When I Think Of Normal, I Think Of Mediocrity, And Mediocrity Scares The F--- Out Of Me.
Thinking
Scare
Ordinary
I Wouldn't Say I'm Normal. But I'm Relatively Stable. When I Think Of Normal, I Think Of Mediocrity, And Mediocrity Scares The F--- Out Of Me.
Thinking
Scare
Ordinary
Mads Is Such A Talented Actor - It's Almost Like He Wears His Emotions On His Sleeve, But Not All The Time - When He Decides That He Needs To, He Has Such Access To His Emotional Life And It Is Just Really Incredible. He Can Do Everything With Just His Eyes.
Eye
Emotional
Needs
Unfortunately, The Belief That Women Are A Minority Is Endemic In Most Cultures Around The World. Obviously Some Take It To The Extreme Where Violence Against Women Is Legal And Supported And In Other Cultures It Is More Subversive And Easy To Dismiss As "progress."
Other Cultures
Progress
Minorities
I Think We're Tremendously Different Than The Series, If They Were To Tune In To The Series After Seeing The Movie They Might Be Disappointed. That There Was, You Know, That They Might Have Some Kind Of Adverse Reaction.
Thinking
Tunes
Different
When I Think Of Normality I Think Of Mediocrity
Thinking
Mediocrity
Think Of Me
I Truly Believe That We Can Overcome Any Hurdle That Lies Before Us And Create The Life We Want To Live. I Have Seen It Happen Time And Time Again.
Lying
Believe
Overcoming
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