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I'd Like There To Be Less Refugees. I'd Like All Girls To Go To School. That's What We Need To Be Thinking About, And Working On Making Our Own Families Good And Strong And Our Own Kids Happy.

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I'd Like There To Be Less Refugees. I'd Like All Girls To Go To School. That's What We Need To Be Thinking About, And Working On Making Our Own Families Good And Strong And Our Own Kids Happy.

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I Am The Kind Of Person Who Doesn't Recognize Borders. I Don't Understand Why We Think It Is Okay To Keep Someone Within One Border When They Are Unable To Feed Their Family When They Could Be Getting Help Somewhere Else. I Don't See People As Different So I Don't Understand The Idea Of Borders In This World.

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I'm Odd Looking. Sometimes I Think I Look Like A Funny Muppet.

It Is Not Enough To Defend Our Values At Home, In Our Newspapers And In Our Institutions. We Also Have To Defend Them In The Refugee Camps Of The Middle East, And The Ruined Ghost Towns Of Syria.

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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.

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Violence Against Women And Lack Of Intervention And Man's Inhumanity To Man And This Kind Of Atrocities Are Going On. These Are Big Issues Of Our Times, We Must Speak About Them, We Must Learn How To Better Understand How These Things Happen So We Can Address Them.

Inhumanity To Man

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

Sometimes Acting And Politics Make A Very Bad Combination. I Think That Sometimes People Take Me Less Seriously In My Work For The Un Because I Am An Actor.

I Met This Amazing Person, And We Realized We Had Very Similar Views On How We Wanted To Live Our Lives. It’s Happened Quickly, With So Many Children. Yesterday, Picking Up The Kids From School, Brad Turned Around In The Car, And There Were Three Of Them. He Couldn’t Stop Laughing. We Love Them And Are Having A Great Time.

Oh, God, I Struggle With Low Self-esteem All The Time! I Think Everyone Does. I Have So Much Wrong With Me, It's Unbelievable!

If Every Choice You Make Comes From An Honest Place, You’re Solid And Nothing Anybody Can Say About You Can Rock You Or Change Your Opinion. It Doesn’t Shake Me Because I Know Why I Do The Things I Do And I Know I Come From A Good Place And So People Can Judge Me However They Wish. But I Know I’ll Continue To Do The Best I Can And Be The Best I Can.

I Think I Should Learn French And Be A Better Cook - Basic, Really Good Life Stuff.

This Has Been My Life For Many Years; One Role Feeds The Other. It Is A Joy To Be An Artist, But It Doesn't Mean Very Much Unless That Work Is Somehow Useful In Some Way And Contributes To Others.

When Other Little Girls Wanted To Be Ballet Dancers I Kind Of Wanted To Be A Vampire.

I Do Believe In The Old Saying 'what Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger.' Our Experiences, Good And Bad, Make Us Who We Are. By Overcoming Difficulties, We Gain Strength And Maturity.

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.

I 've Been Married So Much In My Life That I Never Really Had Lovers, So It's Been A Fun Time. Hopefully The Men Are Enjoying It As Well.

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

Every Day We Choose Who We Are By How We Define Ourselves.

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.

I Realized That Very Young - That A Life Where You Don't Live To Your Full Potential, Or You Don't Experiment, Or You're Afraid, Or You Hesitate, Or There Are Things You Know You Should Do But You Just Don't Get Around To Them, Is A Life That I'd Be Miserable Living, And The Only Way To Feel That I'm On The Right Path Is Just To Be True To Myself, Whatever That May Be, And That Tends To Come With Stepping Out Of Something That's Maybe Safe Or Traditional.

Usually All My Tattoos Came At Good Times. A Tattoo Is Something Permanent When You've Made A Self-discovery, Or Something You've Come To A Conclusion About.

I've Told Billy [bob Thornton] If I Ever Caught Him Cheating, I Wouldn't Kill Him Because I Love His Children And They Need A Dad. But I Would Beat Him Up. I Know Where All Of His Sports Injuries Are.

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

I Think It Is Funny That We Were Freer About Sexuality In The 4th Century B.c. It Is A Little Disconcerting.

We Cannot Close Ourselves Off To Information And Ignore The Fact That Millions Of People Are Out There Suffering. 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. All Of Us Would Like To Believe That If We Were In A Bad Situation Someone Would Help Us.

If I Make A Fool Of Myself, Who Cares? I'm Not Frightened By Anyone's Perception Of Me.

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

It's Probably Not An Accident That The Films That I Care About Happen To Be About Issues That Matter To Me, Stories That I Want To Tell. If You're Going To Spend Two Years Of Your Life On Something It Has To Matter To You, You Have To Be Passionate About It.

I Don't See Myself As Beautiful, Because I Can See A Lot Of Flaws. People Have Really Odd Opinions. They Tell Me I'm Skinny, As If That's Supposed To Make Me Happy.

If You Have Enough People Sitting Around Telling You You're Wonderful, Then You Start Believing You're Fabulous, Then Someone Tells You You Stink And You Believe That Too!

As A Director, I Hoped That I Was Able To Help The Actors By Giving Them The Space And The Respect They Need And The Trust. I Gave Them What I Always Felt I Needed When I Was Working.

I Love Doing Action. And I Love Doing Dramatic Films, And I'd Never Really Been Able To Combine Them.

I Used To Think I Was Unstable, Because I Had This Thirst For Something. I Could Never Figure Out What It Was. I Couldn’t Sleep At Night, And I Always Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. I Have A Window Tattooed, This Little Box, And It’s Because Wherever I Was, I Wanted To Be Somewhere Else. And, I Always Saw Myself, Wherever I Was In Life, Staring Out The Window.

The Truth Is I Love Being Alive. And I Love Feeling Free. So If I Can't Have Those Things Then I Feel Like A Caged Animal And I'd Rather Not Be In A Cage. I'd Rather Be Dead. And It's Real Simple. And I Think It's Not That Uncommon.

I Think What Children Can Handle And What They're Interested In Is Much Deeper Than People Assume. It's Why Sometimes We Make Things Too Simple For Them.

I'd Go From Film To Film And Almost Detach From One World And Jump In Another. I Was Living As These People And Not Having A Self. I Didn't Know Who I Was. And Things Just Get Really Dark.

I'm Able To Be Very Effective Because I'm Not A Democrat, I'm Not A Republican. So, I'm Not Tied, And I'd Never Want To Be Tied To Anything, To Some Constituency That I Would Have To Answer To.

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

I'm Trying To Find Things That Are Extremely Challenging Or Mean Something To Me Deeply.

The Interesting Thing For Me Is That Everybody Felt That I Was Really Wild When I Was Unbalanced And Desperate To Communicate Something And Didn't Have A Sense Of Purpose. But I've Never Been So Crazy And Wild As I Am With My Son Or As I Am Now.

Children Should Be Allowed To Express Themselves In Whatever Way They Wish Without Anybody Judging Them Because It Is An Important Part Of Their Growth... Society Always Has Something To Learn When It Comes To The Way We Judge Each Other, Label Each Other. We Have Far To Go.

With Doing The Movies I've Done I Don't Think I Would Be Half The Person I Am Today.

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